Sentence examples for real rate of return from inspiring English sources

With inflation at about 1.5percentthathat is not a bad real rate of return.

Historically, the pre-tax real rate of return on privately invested capital in America has been 9% a year.

Hempton basically argues that China has turned financial repression — controlled interest rates on deposits, which ensure a negative real rate of return — into a giant engine of kleptocracy.

He reckons that the real rate of return for the Gulf states on such an "investment" is 13%, well above the cost of borrowing to plug budget gaps.

Sadly, many states are slashing such programs, despite the fact that the funds dedicated to them earn an annual real rate of return of 10 percent or higher.

Sylvia Waycot from Moneyfacts said: "The rate of inflation means hundreds of thousands of savers need accounts paying an unattainable 6.5% before they earn a real rate of return on their money.

Besides, who can really get excited about earning less than 5% anyway, especially if the real rate-of-return is even less?

"Huge real rates of return on capital are all but assured.

"Over the past decade or two, we've had positive real rates of return," Mr. Cronk said.

The lack of good private investment opportunities has kept big banks and insurance companies buying government debt (which carries reasonable real rates of return despite low nominal rates thanks to deflation).

George Hall of Brandeis University and Thomas Sargent of New York University† reckon that less than a quarter of the reduction in America's debt-to-GDP ratio between 1945 and 1974 came from negative real rates of return on government bonds.The Hall-Sargent calculations show that almost all of this inflation tax was borne by those who held bonds with a maturity of five years or more.