His point about higher earners paying less is based on some Institute for Fiscal Studies figures that assume those earning £100,000 a year would be able to repay their debt over four years (thus having to pay less interest).
Gregory J. Heym, the chief economist for Terra Holdings, the parent company of Halstead Property and Brown Harris Stevens, said that based on some preliminary figures, he was expecting the final months of 2010 to look something like the first few months: pretty good in the scheme of things.
As it happens, however, this notion is based on some very suspect figures, including a gross mathematical error that was admitted by the Congressional Budget Office, a source for Biggs' calculations.
All of this would place America's finances on a sounder path though critics note that Mr Ryan's figures are based on some highly implausible assumptions, such as a prompt collapse in the unemployment rate and a surge in growth thanks to lower taxes.
The figures were based on some research by Credit Suisse, which estimated the distribution of wealth across global populations.
Ephemeral characters -- some fictional and some based on real figures -- fill McCann's story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev and his family, whom he abandoned to an uncertain fate when he defected to the West in 1961.
Although it is hard to tell from Stein's obscure yet somehow incantatory text, the opera is a community portrait of 16th-century Spanish saints, some based on historical figures (Teresa of Avila and Ignatius of Loyola) but most of them made up.
Simply taking a snapshot of a school based on exam figures means that some schools will always appear low down the league tables, but you aren't getting a proper picture of what's going on in those schools.
Some design guidelines based on two figures of merit (related to thermal efficiency and pressure drop, respectively), which could be used in an engineering environment are provided.
The online B2B payments market, says Traxpay, is potentially worth some $250 billion annually based on 2010 figures from Boston Consulting, but it's been a space that has been slow to change, with many businesses still paying each other by check or costly or time-consuming money transfers.
