Any financial liabilities held, such as outstanding balances on credit cards and student loans, are then subtracted to provide a net measure of wealth Private pension wealth: this includes occupational and personal pensions as well as retained rights in private pensions and pensions in payment.
The beauty of this variant surely has to do with the paradox of thaw figured as restraint or retention, and the wintry notion that cold, frost and snow might themselves be a form of gift – an addition to the landscape that will in time be subtracted by warmth.
Moreover, the expansion was driven by domestic demand, which creates the potential for other euro-zone countries to increase their exports to Germany; indeed, net trade (exports less imports) subtracted from German growth.But though the euro zone's biggest economy is in fine fettle, that is not the case for its second- and third-largest.
The estimated 3m domestic servants in the region, all foreigners, often endure conditions equivalent to indentured servitude, with housing and food subtracted from salaries, no time off and no fringe benefits.
If 10 of those workers give up looking for work then they're subtracted from both categories.
When the newly refined signal from the interstellar dust is subtracted, the purported gravitational waves disappear.
State and local government spending subtracted slightly from growth to end the year, as it has done for most of the past three years, but that too should soon switch back to positive contributions.All in all, the fourth-quarter performance is more warning shot than recession indicator.
For Mr Hollande the euro-zone fiscal capacity "should not be subtracted" from the EU budget, but rather added to it.
Other components, such as business investment, imports and government spending, added to or subtracted from growth, roughly offsetting each other.The sluggishness of consumer spending is mostly the result of weak employment.
For years the journalists had got by with wage increases of barely 1%, after higher health-care and pension contributions were subtracted.
Two months' worth of the formerly Finnish phonemaker's figures added $2 billion to revenue but subtracted $692m from operating profit.
