I can’t think of a metric that is more misunderstood and misused among college presidents, trustees, faculty and staff than the tuition discount rate. When a metric is commonly misunderstood in its ...

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Great question! The correct answer depends on the time period. Since January 2003, when the Federal Reserve System implemented a “penalty” discount rate policy, the discount rate has been about 1 ...

A discount rate is a percentage rate that investors use to measure the value of future cash flows in today's dollars. A discount rate has a wide variety of applications in terms of analyzing ...

The next step in my research on threats to retiree income involves earnings multiples and discount rates. The application space here is REITs, but the general points made apply much more broadly. It ...