After three years of negative press regarding lost sponsorships, falling ratings and declining track attendance, Nascar has experienced a resurgence in 2011.
In Brazil the economy has been harder hit by falling commodity prices and declining exports.
Yet a wicked combination of falling investment returns and declining annuity rates means that workers should be saving even more in order to secure a decent pension.
The current situation is far different, with unemployment falling because of a declining labor force participation rate and a decline in the size of that labor force.
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The ratings agency is concerned over declining attendance and falling revenue at the stadium.
That gap has emerged in the past few years because falling stockmarkets, rising longevity and declining interest rates have together battered pension-scheme finances.
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The U.S. also has abundant raw materials, and considering demand for raw materials is declining, the price is also falling.
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Their official data on exports show that low value added production accounts for a declining share of total exports, falling to below 50 percent since 2008.
At the time in question commodities were declining and market rates of interest were falling too.
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Several big chains are off sharply from their 5-year high prices as they struggle with declining advertising revenues, weakening circulation and falling profitability.
And now we have the ISM Mfg Index shocking economists again by declining to its lowest level in 20 months, falling to just 53.5 in May from 60.4 in April, and the ADP jobs report showing that only 38, 000 new private sector jobs were created in May, down from 177, 000 in April, and in sharp contrast to the consensus forecast that 180, 000 new private sector jobs were created.
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The UK Department for Education says that the number of schools being placed on special measures was declining - and those that were were recovering more quickly, falling from 25 months to 18 months.
The percentage of such men that work at all has been falling over this period, and the real wages of those that do have been declining.
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While Japanese alarmists blame a lack of competitiveness, the fact is that Japan's working-age population is declining, and within that population the proportion of workers willing to do manual jobs is also falling.
Manufacturing output has been falling since November, manufacturing investment is down 13.5% over the year, farm incomes are declining and there is a loss of factory employment of nearly 250, 000 since early 1998.
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