The balance sheet value of the item may therefore differ from the real value.

Just as inflation helps debtors by eroding the real value of their debts, deflation hurts them by increasing the real value of what they owe.

Even if the asset pool declines in value, the fund s managers keep the value of each share at 1.00 by rounding upward the fund s real value.

Sometimes the real value of a conference, however, lies in the conferring.

The real value created by many of these companies is much broader.

But that is logically flawed even with deflation, real purchasing power would fall, and the real value of debts would rise (debt deflation), as the real depreciation occurs.

But the protection against inflation does not prevent a loss of value if real interest rates rise, depressing the value of the bonds.

The real depreciation necessary to restore external balance would drive the real value of euro debts even higher, making them even more unsustainable.

The most direct adverse impact of deflation is to increase the real value of debt.

Moreover, real estate prices might fall dramatically, in which case many households may find the value of their mortgage exceeding the value of their house.

When you get math involved, problems that you solve for aesthetic value only, or to create something beautiful, turn around and turn out to have an application in the real world.

There is a basic view that real value involves making things, involves labor. It involves engineering.

Unlike common stock, bonds, and real estate, the value of gold does not reflect underlying earnings.

His letter to his two nephews emphasized the value of determining the real meaning of strength

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But we live in the real world.

That misunderstanding encouraged people to buy homes for their investment value and thus was a major cause of the real estate bubbles around the world whose collapse fueled the current economic crisis.

It is mainly the value of the land that makes real estate in this area so expensive.

We consider that multilateral approaches here add real value to whatever national means might already be available.

The value of world exports amounted to 8.9 trillion.

The Shanghai Composite in China rose by a factor of five in real terms from 2005 to 2007, and then lost two thirds of its real value.

What matters is not variations in the book value of these reserves, but rather their real value in terms of purchasing power when China decides to cash in.

The error is called the money illusion the belief that a nominal unit of currency is the best measure of value, even though its real value is unstable.

As a result, the rise in the real value of goods and services available for US consumption and investment was the same as the rise of real GDP.

Top scientists, sheltered by anonymity, can usually spot originality and can judge which scientific ideas have real value.

The Board could therefore still not ascertain that the financial statements fully reflected the real value of assets.

A back of the envelope calculation of mine in 2007 suggested that the world paid financial institutions roughly 800 billion every year for mergers and acquisitions that yielded about 170 billion of real economic value.

What we see of the real world is not the unvarnished world but a model of the world, regulated and adjusted by sense data, but constructed so it's useful for dealing with the real world.

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This hypothesis may soon get a real world test.

If that happens, a homeowner with a mortgage would see the real value of his debt rise by 10 .

But they also have to create something of real value to have meaningful economic impact in the long term.

What Ukraine would value most is a real sense that it is being treated distinctly in its own right.

On a real trade weighted basis, the dollar is down about 13 relative to its value in March 2006.

The real hope lies in the idea of protecting forests for their value in the fight against climate change.

This compensation had been estimated in the absence of precise information on the real estate value to be compensated.

In this world without utopia, individual freedom is the supreme value.

In addition to tempering debt problems, a short burst of moderate inflation would reduce the real (inflation adjusted) value of residential real estate, making it easier for that market to stabilize.

The government might be tempted to rely on rapid inflation to try to reduce the real value of its debt.

This is not default in the usual sense because the debt is honored, albeit with currency of lesser real value.

Throughout the world, people suffer from a serious perception error that has inhibited them from taking concrete steps to protect themselves from inflation or deflation. The error is called the money illusion the belief that a nominal unit of currency is the best measure of value, even though its real value is unstable.

We must ensure that the world recognizes the value of those aspirations.

Sustained moderate inflation would help to bring down the real value of real estate more quickly, and potentially make it easier for German wages to rise faster than those in peripheral countries.

Once the Chinese are confident about their domestic growth rate, they can allow the real value of the renminbi to rise.

You never see architects or designers showing you their real world.