Howard Lutnick’s viral social media attack on Jerome Powell reveals the growing tension between Trump’s economic team and Fed ...

We can use a simple formula to calculate the present value of a perpetuity annuity. ... If we valued it with a 10% discount rate, the present value would fall to $5,000 (PV = $500 ÷ 0.10).

In simple terms, the discount rate is used to price risk: when valuing two investment opportunities, ... A key input to the discount rate formula is the "risk-free" rate, ...

Hong Kong's central bank said on Wednesday it will cut its discount rate by 100 basis points under a modified discount rate formula from Thursday to help banks ease the credit crunch.

Planet Money listener Clayton Quarles writes: ...On my drive back today I caught up on the "putting a price tag on your descendants" show and got a kick out of it, since I have the discount rate ...

This result was only partially offset by a 13-basis-point rise in discount rates during the month, to 5.49%, which reduced plan liabilities by $18 billion, to $1.250 trillion at month’s end.