Unemployment is falling rapidly, though at roughly 12.8% in 2007, it remains well above the EU average.
Retail rents are falling rapidly: down by around 30% for street-level storefronts in Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, according to First Pacific Davies, a property consultancy.
In particular, the costs of solar PV are falling rapidly.
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The median loan-to-value ratio among underwater borrowers gradually rises by transaction year, peaking at 133% for those who purchased their homes in 2005, before falling slightly for those who purchased homes in 2006 and 2007 and falling rapidly in subsequent years.
Lacking a forward planning process based on scenario development, and lacking a good market sensing system that would pick up on the early market shift as novice competitor Apple started to really change the market, these companies are now falling rapidly to the wayside.
Corporate debts are falling as rapidly as profits are rising, which is to say very fast.
Financial markets are worried that firms' profits from their traditional businesses are falling more rapidly than they were, and that profits from new ones are rising more slowly.
Ratings are falling more rapidly than those of other sports.
But Mr Bush's Democratic opponents will have a field day with the budget numbers and they have been greatly helped by the administration's attempts to pretend that the surpluses are not falling as rapidly as they obviously are.
Moreover, Mr Breivik's prophecies of conquest by multiplying is confounded by rapidly falling immigrant birth rates.
While those rapidly falling costs destroy solar manufacturer margins, they improve the opportunities for profitable solar farms.
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The stock has responded by rapidly falling when economic prospects look dim and rising when they appear brighter.
Rapidly falling gasoline inventories are a good predictor of sharply higher gasoline prices.
Graphics computers, however, are rapidly climbing in power and rapidly falling in price.
That's why the structure of family, which is rapidly falling apart in ultra-liberal societies, remains strong and intact in the Islamic world.
With no QNX on handsets until CY12, we think RIM will likely continue to lose share to Android smartphones whose prices are rapidly falling.
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Since inception in April of 2008, the Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE:TAN) has fallen 93%, while solar installations have risen six-fold with rapidly falling costs.
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Recession or not, the U.S. is now engulfed in somewhat of a "perfect storm" of economic problems: A rapidly falling dollar, inflation, gummed-up credit markets and rising home foreclosures.
Estimates rapidly started falling in mid-October, leading the more lengthy tumble in the stock price.
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Competing in a market rapidly with falling solar PV prices is tough for anybody, never mind a small company with novel technology.
We note the sharp contrast with 2001, when a shortage of dollar liquidity (strong and strengthening dollar, high real interest rates, low central bank dollar reserves, falling gold and commodity prices, rapidly shrinking U.S. profits) all spelled weakness.
What is more, with performance ever improving and prices ever falling, the cost of Video Networks' infrastructure should drop rapidly.
These challenges, coupled with a rapidly evolving communications environment, have left many Chinese companies falling behind.
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After falling in 1996, the trade gap between America and Japan is now rising rapidly again.
What was most impressive was how both companies cut costs rapidly enough in 2009, so that each had a respectable year, even with revenue falling about 20%.
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