Like most mainstream economists, Yellen believes that there is a causal relationship between the jobless rate and the rate of inflation.
The gap between the official exchange rate and the rate in the swap market has widened to nearly 20%.
But he added, "It's not at all obvious to me from my reading of the statistics that there is any real difference between the New York City rate and the rate of cities across the country".
In the second quarter, the cost of health benefits rose at a 12-month rate of 8.1percentt -- more than three times the inflation rate and the rate of increases in wages and salaries.
The state's unemployment rate, at 9.6 percent, is among the highest in the nation, well above the national rate and the rate in neighboring states.
The unemployment rate and the rate of credit card charge-offs, or uncollectible balances, have been aligned because consumers who lose their jobs are more likely to miss payments.
In the aggregate, their parsimony holds back the economy's growth rate and the rate of productivity growth, which leads to more headlines about "secular stagnation" and more pessimism among business people.
The vital statistics (i.e., the birth rate and the death rate) and the rate of population growth for Ontario were roughly the same as the Canadian rates for most of the 20th century.
Also paying 2.25 per cent is Harpenden Building Society's Simply ISA and Nationwide's Web ISA, although with Nationwide's you will need at least £10,000 to get this rate, and the rate falls to 0.5 per cent in August 2014.
According to the magazine's analysis of recruitment data for 2001, New York City contributed members to the armed forces at only two-thirds of the national rate, and the rate in Manhattan was by far the lowest of the five boroughs.
And, he noted, if emissions continue to rise just 1percentt a year -- the current rate, and the rate that would result under the policies proposed by Mr. Bush -- that adds up to a lot of greenhouse gases by later in the century.
