Good: so what happens when someone finds a way of making higher than that general rate of profit?
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Over the same period, prices for cosmetic surgery rose just 21%, half the general rate of inflation and just over one fifth the overall health care rate of inflation.
This is not just about the general rate of consumer adoption of mobile devices speeding up but, more importantly, about the fact that these devices are coupled to an entire ecosystem of services.
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Given that most of those on minimum wage have a savings rate of zero and that the general savings rate for the economy is around 10% (not accurate, but good enough) then the extra spending in the economy is 10% of the total amount of money moved from pocket to pocket.
The suicide rate inside the Foxconn factories is lower than the general suicide rate in China.
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And with Bush likely to veto any general tax rate hike, Congress hasn't got much choice.
But as the general crime rate went down, so did the crime rate of released offenders.
The general suicide rate among all Americans is 12 per 100, 000 per year.
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While this is still below the general conscription rate of 75% among male 18-year-olds, the rapid rise in ultra-Orthodox military service is a revolutionary development for the sector.
In theory, the prices of various securities should have converged around a general market interest rate.
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Some companies worry that lowering the general corporate tax rate would require eliminating tax breaks for specific firms or industries.
The majority of analysts (66.7%) rate General Dynamics as a buy.
The majority of analysts (66.7%) rate General Electric as a buy.
The majority of analysts (64.7%) rate General Mills as a buy.
The majority of analysts (63.6%) rate General Electric as a buy.
The majority of analysts (70.6%) rate General Mills as a buy.
The majority of analysts (80%) rate General Electric as a buy.
What matters, in large part, is the difference between the interest rate the borrower is paying and the inflation rate in general.
The majority of analysts (77.8%) rate Dollar General as a buy.
President Obama has advocated lowering the rate in general, Treasury Secretary Geithner is rumored to be sitting on a reform proposal to do just that, and the leading Republican Presidential candidates have proposed a corporate rate cut.
The best way to lower the murder rate in the US, and the crime rate in general, is to create a more just society, so that it will be very rare that a person sees violence as their best option.
It was, among the 1 million working at Foxconn then, about 5% of the suicide rate in the general Chinese economy.
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When people use round numbers, by contrast, they're conveying that they have only a general sense of the market rate for their skills.
Goldberg cites evidence from Adam Winkler, a law professor at UCLA, that concealed-carry permit holders actually commit crimes at a lower rate than the general population.
So the suicide rate seems to be lower than that of the male population (although higher than that expected from the rate for the general population, which would be 276).
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In a study of 26 stockbrokers he conducted a decade ago, Mr. Cass found nearly one-quarter had clinical levels of depression, more than three times the rate among the general population.
Chief among them is the economy, which has helped drive the jobless rate amongst those veterans to more than 12 percent in 2011-- well above the rate of the general population.
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