This is why "blended rates" often look lower than "standard rates".
Banks have in the past found ways to get around rules, or make their workers' pay look lower than it actually was.
The cost of a secured consolidation loan looks lower than other forms of borrowing as it is spread over a longer period of time, not because interest rates are necessarily lower.
At about 40% of GDP, debt here looks lower than many other countries - France and Germany and the United States are 60%-6460%-64%e Japan is way up at about 180% of national income.
In its lawsuits, the government says that the traders deliberately valued such bets to make their losses look lower than they actually were in the early months of 2012.
One crucial move was to shift assets off its books at the end of each quarter in exchange for cash through a clever accounting maneuver, called Repo 105, to make its leverage levels look lower than they were.
Bernd Schips, an economics professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, says that recent changes in the way the GDP figures are calculated, and incomplete labour-force figures, may have been another factor in making the figure for GDP growth per person look lower than it is.Besides, Switzerland's growth paradox is anything but new.
One note to be pointed out that the MLE at certain SNR looks lower than its corresponding CRLB because the iteration in Monte Carlo simulation is not sufficient.
Sure enough, they have often wanted to, either to make their borrowing costs look lower than reality, or to gain a small advantage in derivatives trades, or both.
If this is true, if banks systematically cheated to make Libor look lower than it really was, then borrowers throughout the economy benefited.
