“The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]” WayBelieveScienceNaturalLevelsEffortLowsIncreaseFruitRateCancerBest WayExpensiveComparisonChemicalsVegetablesConsumptionDecreaseSyntheticFruits And VegetablesCausationPesticides Author:Bruce Ames
“The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.” ProblemLevelsCompanyInformationDemandHighestInnovationRateSolveClientsSpectrumAnalyticsRate Of Change Author:Mike McGavick
“The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.” LastsLevelsSeaCenturyLateRateDecades20th CenturySatellitesAccelerationSea Level Rise Author:Nils-Axel Morner
“I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very low levels at the top, where we stripped away regulations. So the result of that was not a more dynamic economy, but a more unequal society. We tried the experiment of trickle-down. A third of a century later, we can say fairly definitively that it was a failure.” DecisionLevelsResultsEconomyCenturyParticularTaxesLowsThirdsRateExperimentsInequalityRegulationLow LevelTrickle Down Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The sell-offs witnessed during that span were usually brief. Even when they were severe, the market bounced back quickly and always rose to loftier levels. At the top, optimism is king, speculation is running wild, stocks carry high price/earnings ratios, and liquidity has evaporated. A small rise in interest rates can easily be the catalyst for triggering a bear market at that point.” YearsTwoRunningInterestLevelsBearsKingsHigherOptimismSellsRoseRateOptimisticInvestorsEarningSevereSpeculationCatalystRatiosInterest RateHigh PricesLiquidityRunning Wild Author:Martin Zweig
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.” LittlesImportantCountryEarthHeavenGrowthPerfectLevelsEconomicProduceIncreaseRateContributionPhenomenonStabilitySteadyQuantityStableInflationModeratesRapidsFrameworkMonetaryOutputHeaven On EarthImportant Contributions Author:Milton Friedman
“In most Western economies, the general relationship is not in fact between the rate of inflation and the level of unemployment, but between the rate of change of inflation and the rate of change of unemployment.” FactsLevelsEconomyWesternRateUnemploymentInflationRate Of Change Author:Paul Ormerod
“A nation's exchange rate is the single most important price in its economy; it will influence the entire range of individual prices, imports and exports, and even the level of economic activity. So it is hard for any government to ignore large swings in its exchange rate.” ImportantHardGovernmentIndividualNationsLevelsEconomyInfluenceEconomicActivityRateInvestingRangeSwingsImports Book:Changing fortunes: the world's money and the threat to American leadership Source: Changing fortunes: the world's money and the threat to American leadership
“...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals” GoalInterestLevelsEconomicCapacityRateInvestingConsistentReservesFederal ReserveInterest Rate Author:Ben Bernanke
“In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food.” CountryLevelsHigherRateBritishProportionBritainLabourOther CountriesDisadvantagesHigher LevelGreat BritainArtisans Author:Joseph Hume
“The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.” StatesReligionReligiousLevelsUnitedUnited StatesDiseaseHighestStandardsRateAbortionComparisonMortalityPregnancySouthernSecularConformInfantSexuallyHomicideTeen PregnancyInfant MortalitySexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Sam Harris
“The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.” LongStillsOrderUniverseTermLevelsClearEvolutionHigherAll ThingsIntentionComplexesRateWaveLong TermStreamsSteadyElegantNoveltyScarcityStagnationRestructuring Book:The Silent Pulse Source: The Silent Pulse
“In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.” PeopleWayLongHomeGovernmentMightLevelsIndependenceMajorityRateOne WayOur FamilyDependentEmployers Author:Oliver DeMille