And at the national level, Congress has been allowing extended benefits introduced during the economic crisis to expire, even though long-term unemployment remains at historic highs.
This means that the recipients of the deposits can still make a respectable margin even though long-term interest rates are so low.And how: ten-year government bonds (JGBs) are now yielding a startlingly meagre 0.81% (see chart).
The market remained narrowly focused on the outlook for a rate hike by the Fed, even though long-term interest rates actually eased slightly.
Even though long-term fluctuations in temperature and precipitation were considered to be very important in other palaeoenvironmental investigations along Caribbean shorelines (e.g. Bertran et al., 2004), they appear rather negligible in this study, at least concerning the prehistoric core sections.
The Fed can't raise rates or it will risk making the liquidity crisis even worse, so it dares do nothing but jawbone, even though long-term Treasurys should be yielding at least one to two percentage points more than they are today.
Early-career professors imagine that if they fail to receive tenure they'll be miserable the rest of their lives, even though long-term studies show that tenured positions have no impact on well-being.
Ciclosporin is one of the most effective therapeutic options against psoriasis, even though long-term treatment is associated with hypertension and renal failure.
Even though long-term normoglycemia has not been achieved in a large number of patients, glycemic control following islet transplantation is comparable to that achieved with intensive insulinotherapy.
Even though long-term warfarin therapy was associated with decreased vitamin K dependent bone proteins and promotes endothelial dysfunction, warfarin must be one of the important anticoagulant therapeutic strategies in future clinical settings.
Even though, the long term solution involves the upgrade of the power grid components, by considering the potential cost of such investments, the practical solution for the near term would be to develop intelligent control and scheduling techniques to aid the power grid operations.
Second, an alarming number of consumers believe that the presence of a cigarette filter offers health protection, judging by their higher rating of perceived danger for unfiltered versus filtered cigarettes, even though convincing evidence from long term epidemiological studies does not support such a claim [ 12, 14].
