That headline figure has not gone below 3% since December 2009, and it has now been above target for 34 of the past 40 months.
Unemployment has risen from 19% to over 23%, and among young people it has gone from below 40% to 50%.
As a result, the average wait between referral and surgery had gone down to below three months.
The days of buying properties below working capital are long gone.
The chief executive at X-FOR denied the scheme had gone wrong but admitted payment levels of 65% were below the previous average.
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But Mr Broadbent pulls together some striking evidence in support, including this wild and wacky chart (below) which looks like an electrical experiment gone wrong, but actually shows the movement of output across 81 sectors of the economy since the late 1990s.
Of course, it's the animated variety that we're largely discussing here, and their broad influence hasn't gone unnoticed -- particularly by Legs Media, who produced the video below that gives a succinct, yet entertaining, summary of the image format's illustrious 25-year history.
The chart below shows how much Vytorin use has plummeted as Vytorin (in light blue) has gone from being the third-most-prescribed statin drug to one of the least prescribed.
Green Street Advisors, an independent research firm in Newport Beach, Calif. that specializes in REIT stocks, has gone through this exercise for 70 large REITs, a sample of which are shown in the table below.
The need to drill for oil in 5000 feet of water and 20, 000 feet below the ocean floor is a dramatic illustration of how the low hanging fruit are long gone and the lengths to which our addiction to oil will drive us.
Annual sales of LPs in the U.S. had dipped below 1 million for the first time in a decade, and record giant Tower had just gone out of business.
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