Since the crisis, growth in the U.S. has averaged less than 1% a year.
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Wage gains, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, were 0.1%, less than the 0.3% expected.
Wind energy currently provides about 2 percent of total U.S. energy, and solar less than 1 percent.
Tax structures in Germany and many Asian countries make U.S. REITs less attractive than direct real estate ownership.
In the real world, the stimulus multipliers are not just less than 1.00, they are less than zero.
Long-term inflation expectation is 2.0 percent, which is 0.5 percent less than 2012.
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In 2008, the ratio was 1.37 percent, just 0.02 percent less than 2011.
But if housing prices in L.A. fall less than 11.5%, you'll pay the holder of your contracts out of pocket.
One wonders why anyone expects quantitative easing in the U.S. to be any less futile than it was in Japan.
New orders for U.S. durable goods slipped 0.8% in March, far less than the 1.5% drop Wall Street had expected.
Mr. PANG XING YUEN (Economist, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): (Through translator) China's holdings of U.S. treasury bonds are less than people think.
Because of these trends, price changes at the farm level in the U.S. have less impact on a percentage basis than ever before.
According to Morningstar Principia, you can buy an index fund that tracks the U.S. stock market for less than 0.1 percent per year.
Johnson's time of 19.32 secs. lopped no less than 0.34 secs. off his own record, set on the same track in the U.S. Olympic trials in June.
With payment-option ARMs, borrowers get to choose how much they pay each month: enough to cover the interest plus the principal, the interest only... or less than the interest.
Pertussis i s far more dangerous in infants than in adults: from 2000-2004, 92% of the pertussis deaths in the U.S. were in children less than one year old.
The United States used to be very much an agrarian society, yet Saylor writes that agriculture workers as a percentage of the U.S. labor force today are less than 1%.
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Code.org claims that computer-programming jobs are growing at twice the U.S. national average while less than 2.4% of college students graduate with degrees in computer science -- less than 10 years ago.
The researchers calculated the cost of liability to be 1.66% of GDP in the U.S., compared with an average of .63% for Eurozone countries and less than .5% in Denmark, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Meanwhile, the safest drivers can be found trolling the streets of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where the average motorist experiences a collision only once every 13.8 years, which is 27.6 percent less likely than the national average.
The strength in stocks and the bullish economic readings sucked some of the steam out of bonds, with the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note sailing higher up near 3.16%, up from 2.85% less than one week ago.
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How did Brazil go from one of the biggest economies in Latin America, to be usurped by Mexico now as measured by investor appetite and losing the No. 6 global economy position to the U.K. in less than a 12 months.
Let me conclude by saying that when -- as opposed to if -- the United States finds itself in the future obliged to defend its interests, the legacy of the Clinton Administration's efforts that I have outlined today will be profoundly felt: Not only will the U.S. have less capability for such unilateral action than it will need.
According to early tallies, all three U.S. markets closed up but by less than 1 percent.
Add it all up and the U.S. collects far less in taxes than most of our trading partners.
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Moreover, the workforce in 2012 comprised 69.2% of the population, 0.6% less than in 2011.
Those who disagree often cite mostly positive political changes in the former Soviet Union as a principal reason why the U.S. is today less in need of nuclear deterrence than in the past.
At the same time, the U.S. work force was less than half its present size.
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But the 50 wealthiest and most selective colleges and universities in the U.S. enroll less than 4% of students.
Investors also made a big bet against European stocks last year and that region finished ahead of all other regions, including the U.S. And when it comes to timing the U.S. stock market, the experts are less accurate than a coin flip.
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