“We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.” WantNeedsCareCuttingCostIncreaseRateCarefulHealth CareBe CarefulHealth Care Costs Author:Dave Obey
“Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.” MadeTwoIndustryCostRateFactorsOperationsFedsWagesComponentsAutomobileCost Of LivingEscalatorsAutomobile Industry Author:Leonard Woodcock
“To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.” IfsNeedsConditionsObjectsWindCostPercentGunEuropeFruitWesternRateArguingBunchCombatTanksGrapesPentagonRigorPurchasingTacticalWestern Europe Author:Dave Barry
“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.” FirstsMeanHouseFiguresCostModelsDrawsRateArchitecturePlotSurveys Author:William Shakespeare
“Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.” ThinkingCountryStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEconomyPolicyCoupleCostTaxesMajorsRateDrivingCorporateCanadaRegionsMexicoReservesElectricityReducingManufacturingRenaissanceReduction Author:Rick Perry
“At today's prices for medicines, doctors and hospitals-if the latter are available at any price-only millionaires can afford to be hurt or sick and pay for it. Very few people want socialized medicine in the U.S. But pressure for it is going to appear with the same hurricane force as the demand for pollution control if the medicine men and hospital operators don't take soon some Draconian measures... At the present rate of doctor fees and hospital costs under Medicare and Medicaid plans [taxpayers] are shovelling in billions with nothing but escalation in sight.” PeopleIfsMenWantTodayForceHurtPayPlansCostDemandDoctorsSickSightPressureMedicineRateAvailableBillionsLatterHospitalsPollutionTaxpayersMillionaireHurricanesMedicareFeesOperatorsMedicaidSocialized MedicineEscalationDraconianMedicare And MedicaidPollution Control Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWritingBookEnoughFormTurnsFoundHouseKnow HowPlansBuildingMaterialsHigherCostDeservePerformancesRaisesRateVanityLabourWriting A BookBuilderPolishedEdifice Book:The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli
“The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments” DoneInterestPeriodsCostEntrepreneurInvestmentRateAlternativesOccupationEmploying Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.” WholeAchieveReturnAmountCostManagementRateInvestingAverageActiveManagersFundExpensesGrossPercentagesDisadvantagesTransactionsIndex FundsActive Management Author:Burton Malkiel
“Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.” LongGrowthTermInterestCuttingHigherCostApproachRateDebtSpendingCirclesLong TermRisingRejectsUnemployment80sViciousInterest RateVicious CirclesRepayment Author:Gordon Brown
“At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.” MayLibertyDutyCostRateNot AloneTruth Of God Author:Charles Spurgeon
“Imagine you have six loans, small to huge. People want to close loans and because of that, they try to pay off the small loans, but that's not the right strategy. The right strategy, of course, is to pay the loan with the highest interest rate. People make this mistake and it costs them lots and lots of money, it's a very expensive mistake because interest rates accumulate and become very, very expensive very quickly.” PeopleWantTryingCoursesInterestPayMistakeImagineHugeCostSixHighestStrategyRateExpensiveLots Of MoneyLoanInterest Rate Author:Dan Ariely
“We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of return, so he's not willing to put it out at less than 10% now. But if we knew interest rates would stay at 1%, we'd change. Our hurdles reflect our estimate of future opportunity costs.” IfsOpportunityInterestWillingReturnCostRateOur FutureGuessingInterest RateHurdleOpportunity Cost Author:Charlie Munger
“The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year 2060, according to Robert Mendelsohn at Yale University - thanks to longer growing seasons, more wood fiber production, lower construction costs, lower mortality rates, and lower rates of morbidity (illness).” YearsGrowingCostBenefitsSeasonsDollarsRateUniversityIllnessProductionsWoodsBillionsThanksMortalityConstructionModestFiberYaleMorbidityYale University Author:Joseph L. Bast
“You have a job but you don't always have job security, you have your own home but you worry about mortgage rates going up, you can just about manage but you worry about the cost of living and the quality of the local school because there is no other choice for you.rankly, not everybody in Westminster understands what it's like to live like this and some need to be told that it isn't a game.” NeedsHomeSchoolJobsChoicesGamesQualityWorrySecurityCostRateLocalsManageMortgageCost Of LivingWestminsterMortgage Rate Author:Theresa May
“There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition; those are some huge problems that need to be resolved.” NeedsProblemIssuesStudentsHugeCostBiggerRateLoanTuitionStudent Loan Author:Alexis Ohanian
“Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars.” CareGoneCostDollarsRateBillionsSavedHealth CareObamacareTreasuryHealth Care Costs Author:Barack Obama
“If a woman waits 10 years to invest, "I'm busy", "I've got to do this", "I can put it off", "I gotta find the right financial..." It costs her $100 a day. $100 a day! And if we had money falling out of her pocketbook at the rate of $100 a day, we'd change our pocketbook; we'd fix our pocketbook.” IfsYearsI CanFallWaitingCostRateBusyFinancialPocketbooks Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings. It has also raised the real cost to middle-income families of achieving many basic goals. The process begins with the completely unremarkable fact that top earners have been spending at a substantially higher rate than before. They've been building bigger mansions, staging more elaborate weddings and coming-of-age parties for their kids, buying more and better of everything.” FeelsHas BeensRealDoneFactsFeelingsKidsAgeCausesProcessGoalHurtPartyBehindsMiddleAchieveBuildingHigherCostBiggerRaisedRateSpendingIncomeInequalityFallenRisingBuyingComing Of AgeHurt FeelingsMansionsStaging Author:Robert H. Frank
“The Fed has a lot of power in the economy because it has a big impact on the supply and cost of credit, that is, interest rates. It also plays a key role in supervising banks and historically has seemed to take it easy on the banks when it shouldn't have, such as in the lead up to the financial crisis.” PlayBigsEasyInterestRolesEconomyKeysCostCrisisImpactRateFinancialCreditFedsInterest RateFinancial CrisisTake It EasyBig Impact Author:Gerald Epstein
“There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.” PeopleWantShouldGovernmentCausesGrowthInterestCostIncreaseRaisesInvestmentRateInevitableRisingAbundanceShySpeculationHousingMortgageTransportationBorrowedMagnitudeRecessionsBest TimesInterest RateBorrowed MoneyGreat Recession Author:Philip Kotler
“The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsCareMillionsProgressCostRateSavingHealth CareFundLowestSavingsObamacareAffordableUndoneMedicareAffordable Care ActHealth Care CostsTrust Funds Author:Barack Obama
“I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.” MeanInterestCommunityDifferencesOne ThingCostRatePlusFrankLoanInterest RateComplianceStranglingSmall CommunitiesDodd Frank Author:Rick Perry
“Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?” WayLongBodyPowerfulEvolutionHealthyCostRateIllnessThanksClimbsFrighteningInfectionHealthy Life Author:David Suzuki