'And the pay?' 'Is 4 pounds a week.' 'And the work?' 'Is purely nominal.' 'What do you call purely nominal?' 'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the building, the whole time.

And in particular, I'm gonna focus on something I call the diversity prediction theorem.

Banks issue securities with attractive nominal interest rates but unknown repayment probability.

So then we get the magnitude of the acceleration vector, which I'm just going to call a sub c, is going to be equal to you could say the magnitude of this negative omega squared but when you take the magnitude, it's like taking the absolute value in fact, absolute value is just the one dimensional version of magnitude, that's just going to be positive omega squared we don't care about the direction, sign gives us the direction, we just care about the actual size.

Second, the effects of austerity were exacerbated by the choice to pursue nominal, rather than structural, fiscal deficit targets.

It was not adjusted to reflect the impacts of currency rate fluctuation , inflation or changes in the United Nations standard salary scales that had occurred since the previous budget biennium.

Instead, they have to pay a fixed annual tax set at a nominal amount of 225 to 300.

Unless the renminbi falls in value, this translates into an average nominal increase of at least 10 11 in dollar terms.

National accounts can be presented in nominal or real amounts, with real amounts adjusted to remove the effects of price changes over time.

The first option offered par bonds carrying a low interest rate, a long grace period of 26 years and a final maturity of 33 years (until 2038).

In the event, only a 5 per cent nominal increase was approved by COP 6, representing a sharp decline in real terms.

This mechanism for the deliberately progressive construction of a unified polity out of nominally sovereign states is unprecedented in human history.

By calling what s being taken from the young taxes, rather than borrowing that is, a promise to repay far more than what s being taken the implicit debts have been intentionally kept off the books.

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.

Yes, the financial system is insolvent, but it has nominal liabilities and either it or its borrowers have some real assets.

Suppose that the bank has assets with long maturity and a face value of 1.2 billion but whose current economic value is only 1 billion.

We are disappointed that, despite the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), there seems to have been a merely nominal increase, if any at all, in the number of women participating in formal peace processes.

In comparison to the approved budget for 2002 2003, the proposed Convention budget represents a nominal increase of 54.16 per cent in United States dollars and 1.46 per cent in Euros.

Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services.

By sending its troops to South Ossetia, Georgia no doubt was politically reckless, but it did not breach any international rule, however nominal its sovereignty may be.

WASHINGTON, DC Everyone is talking about debt, citing huge nominal figures that strongly affect public policy debates worldwide. But all debt is not created equal.

But this dominance is waning, as evidenced by its declining use as an official reserve currency, as well as for invoicing goods and services, denominating international claims, and anchoring exchange rates.

This would be an opportune time for governments to issue more inflation indexed debt, to begin issuing it, or to issue nominal GDP linked debt, which is analogous to it.

But, while such an announcement is an obvious no brainer for those in the Macroeconomic Camp, it would make all bankers who hold nominal assets or who think in nominal terms physically ill.

There is no taxation, although all males between the ages of 18 and 65 years pay a nominal tax of 65 pence annually and a levy on imported alcoholic drinks and cigarettes which is used to subsidize essential foodstuffs.

Germany currently pays a little over 3 nominal interest on 10 year debt, half of what Greece is being charged for emergency loans and far less than Greece would pay if it attempted to raise money in private markets.

The second option offered a quasi par bond, carrying a discount of 30.6 per cent on principal, payable only in pesos, and carrying a low coupon also payable in pesos, a long grace period of 33 years and a final maturity of 41 years (until 2046).

6. Use of selective nominal interest rates in such a way that interest rates on loans for speculative activities would be greater than the rates on loans for productive activities, and resulting weighted real interest rates for savings would be positive.

Far from it two year United States Treasury notes with a face value of 1,000 will get you 998 in cash the lowest liquidity price since the Great Depression and Japan in the 1990 s.

Given the depreciation of the United States dollar against the euro over the past two years, the near zero growth in euro terms leads, in United States dollar terms, to a nominal increase of 22.0 per cent at the time of preparation of this budget proposal (see paragraph 10 above).

Consequently, the use of a nominal value of 5 per cent per Sv for mortality owing to leukaemia and solid cancers from irradiation at low doses for a population of all ages (4 per cent per Sv for an adult working population) still seems valid to the Committee.

While China may have the financial resources to cover its debt overhang, it risks being left with a low to middle income economy, high debt levels, and nominal growth rates roughly two thirds lower than the 17 average annual rate achieved in 2004 2011.

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.

It is not that the world economy faces a liquidity squeeze. Far from it two year United States Treasury notes with a face value of 1,000 will get you 998 in cash the lowest liquidity price since the Great Depression and Japan in the 1990 s.