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The low capital cost for a mini-mill — around US $ 140 – 200 per ton of annual installed capacity, compared with US $ 1, 000 per ton of annual installed capacity for an integrated steel mill — allowed mills to be quickly established in war-ravaged Europe, and also allowed them to successfully compete with the big United States steelmakers, such as Bethlehem Steel and U. S. Steel, for low-cost, carbon steel " long products " ( structural steel, rod and bar, wire, and fasteners ) in the U. S. market.
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But the practice is likely to be misleading, since it may seem to support a conclusion that, as long as the revenues from any class of service cover the imputed operating expenses plus some return on capital investment, however low, the rates of charge for this service are compensatory.
For example, if a bank, operating under the Basel I accord, has to hold 8 % capital against default risk, but the real risk of default is lower, it is profitable to securitise the loan, removing the low risk loan from its portfolio.
Nonetheless, beginning in the early 1960s low capital and labour productivity and expensive material inputs plagued the Bulgarian economy.
According to Blair ( 1997 ) British Steel faced serious problems at the time of its formation, including obsolescent plants ; plants operating under capacity and thus at low efficiency ; outdated technology ; price controls that reduced marketing flexibility ; soaring coal and oil costs ; lack of capital investment funds ; and increasing competition on the world market.
A low interest rate implies that firms can loan money to invest in their capital stock and pay less interest for it.
US President Reagan also actively hindered the Soviet Union's ability to sell natural gas to Europe whilst simultaneously actively working to keep gas prices low, which kept the price of Soviet oil low and further starved the Soviet Union of foreign capital.
The low interest rates in 1998 – 99 helped increase the start-up capital amounts.
That return rate may seem low, but it is still positive after all of our discounting, suggesting that the investment decision is probably a good one: it produces enough profit to compensate for tying up capital and incurring risk with a little extra left over.
In his Prices and Production ( 1931 ), Hayek argued that the business cycle resulted from the central bank's inflationary credit expansion and its transmission over time, leading to a capital misallocation caused by the artificially low interest rates.
Problems hindering economic growth include high crime rates, illiteracy and low levels of education, and an inadequate and underdeveloped capital market.
Macroeconomic stability was adversely affected by political uncertainty, the collapse of informal banking cooperatives, high budget deficits, low investment, and reduced international capital flows, including suspension of IFI lending as Haiti fell into arrears with the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) and World Bank.
The Isle of Man is a low tax economy with no capital gains tax, wealth tax, stamp duty, death duty or inheritance tax
At our trading houses, too, we mean to sell so low as merely to repay us cost and charges, so as neither to lessen or enlarge our capital.
The climate in the capital city of Islamabad varies from an average daily low of in January to an average daily high of in June.
Diurnal ranges are low ; on a typical dry-season day in the capital city, the early morning minimum may be and the afternoon maximum.
From that date on, European leaders commonly took advantage of the low interest rates available in the Republic and borrow several hundred millions on the Dutch capital market.
Bucharest's crime rate is rather low in comparison to other European capital cities, with the number of total offenses declining by 51 % between 2000 and 2004.
That spending of city money on suburbs then devalued inner-city capital property, provoked the economic abandonment of the city in favor of peripheral rural property, consequently, the low price of inner-city land, relative to the high price of rural land.
Secondly, a new era of an abundant supply of capital at low interest rates suddenly opened around this time.
Groups with higher membership ( such as political parties ) contribute more to the amount of capital than groups with lower membership, although many groups with low membership ( such as communities ) still add up to be significant.
A low level of social capital leads to an excessively rigid and unresponsive political system and high levels of corruption, in the political system and in the region as a whole.
For example, results from a survey given to 13-18 year old students in Sweden showed that low social capital and low social trust are associated with higher rates of psychosomatic symptoms, musculoskeletal pain, and depression.
The term wage slavery has been used to criticize economic exploitation and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital ( particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e. g. in sweatshops ), and the latter as a lack of workers ' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy.
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That brings its per-year cost down mighty low.
The major gets the assured gallonage for the life of the lease and the distributor apparently can do well because delivery cost is low.
Acceptance of radiopasteurization is likely to be delayed, however, for two reasons: ( 1 ) the storage life of fresh chicken under refrigeration is becoming a minimal problem because of constantly improved sanitation and distributing practices, and ( 2 ) treatment by antibiotics, a measure already approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration, serves to extend the storage life of chicken at a low cost of about 0.5 cents per pound.
The low cost and ease of fabrication of the dies for three-dimensional foam cutting plus the wide variety of shapes, dimensions, and contours that can be tailor-made to customer requirements has made the technique useful for producing case liners, materials handling containers, packaging and cushioning devices, and such novelties as soap dishes, toys, head rests, arch supports, and gas pedal covers.
Hemphill said that the Hughes Steel Erection Co. contracted to do the work at an impossibly low cost with a bid that was far less than the `` legitimate '' bids of competing contractors.
He signed the Homestead Act in 1862, making millions of acres of government-held land in the West available for purchase at very low cost.
Mass production via assembly lines is widely considered to be the catalyst which initiated the modern consumer culture by making possible low unit cost for manufactured goods.
While owning steel works, Carnegie had purchased at low cost the most valuable of the iron ore fields around Lake Superior.
Though cloning is still possible even with digital technologies, the cost of wireless service is so low that the problem has virtually disappeared.
Bridges employing only compression are relatively inefficient structurally, but may be highly cost efficient where suitable materials are available near the site and the cost of labor is low.
On the supply side, Brazil's arms exports were designed for developing world markets and were noted for their high quality, easy maintenance, good performance in adverse conditions, and low cost.
Barges are used today for low-value bulk items, as the cost of hauling goods by barge is very low.
The resulting genetically engineered bacterium enabled the production of vast quantities of synthetic human insulin at relatively low cost.
Ballpoint pens, due to their low cost and ubiquity, are the most widely used pen to date.
Because ballpoint pens are low cost alternatives to both fountain pens and roller-ball pens, they have become largely a disposable product.
Ballpoint pens are often provided free by businesses as a form of advertising — printed with a company's name ; a ballpoint pen is a relatively low cost advertisement that is highly effective ( customers will use, and therefore see, a pen daily ).
Another choice, hickory wood, seems to have a very good blend of hardness and impact resistance, while still having a relatively low cost.
" Lomborg claims to have consistently supported the position that global warming exists, but cost benefit analyses, as calculated by the Copenhagen Consensus ranked climate mitigation initiatives low on a list of international development initiatives when first done in 2004.
It is also being considered to revitalize the Pula Airport ( Istria ) as a destination for low cost airlines.
Currently, the following low cost airlines are flying to Croatia: EasyJet, Flyglobespan, Germanwings, TUIfly, Ryanair, Thomson and Wizz Air.
The overheads of the contact centre are shared by many clients thereby supporting a very cost effective model especially for low volumes of calls.
The silicon cost of an 8051 is now as low as US $ 0. 001, because some implementations use as few as 2, 200 logic gates and take 0. 0127 square millimeters of silicon.
Cattle in the United States are often fed chicken litter due to the high amount of protein and low cost of the feed versus other sources of protein.
However, the PDP-6 proved to be a " hard sell " with customers, as it offered few advantages over similar machines from the better established vendors like IBM or Honeywell, in spite of its low cost around $ 300, 000.
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