House prices rose by 8% in the year to July, half the recent peak rate of 16% in January, according to the Halifax price index.
Just before Thanksgiving the number of initial claimants fell to 364, 000, well below its peak rate of 433, 000 in September and below the 400, 000 level usually associated with an economy in recession.
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Mobilcom, which charges a flat rate of DM0.19 a minute for long-distance calls in Germany (a third of Deutsche Telekom's peak rate), is so popular that most customers trying to reach its network find only a busy signal.
The bursting of the tech bubble and the minor recession of 2001 knocked about a point off the peak rate of 67.3% in April 2000, but even after the Great Recession ended in June 2009 the rate was 65.7%.
Martin Fridson of FridsonVision, a research firm, has calculated that a severe recession (which, he stresses, he is not predicting) could result in a peak rate of between 16% and 20% of annual defaults on corporate bonds, far higher than in 1991.
Within a year, he brought down inflation from a peak annual rate of 7, 650% to 139%.
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Setting aside last year, between 1997-2007 America's peak unemployment rate was below its peers by anywhere from 1% (Canada) to 5.7% (France).
These are the sort of things you would expect, Wi-fi-connected appliances like refrigerators, ovens and washers that can download recipes or take advantage of off-peak electricity rate times.
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The whole system could cope with a flow of 200, 000 barrels a day more than three times the 63, 000 barrels a day the government estimates was the Macondo well's peak flow rate.
Anything to goose the perilously low occupancy rates--50% at the Indian hotels, when the peak-season rate is 80% to 90%.
But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model which can be used by doctors and environmental specialists to quantify the effect of the pollutants on the lung function as measured by the peak expiratory flow rate-- which is essentially how much a person can breathe out in one breath.
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From the current 8.1%, the jobless rate would peak above 9% next year, averaging 8.8% in 2013.
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She thinks the poverty rate will peak above 14% and stay as high as 13% for a decade or so.
When this is taken into account, the debt-servicing ratio is close to its previous peak when the base rate stood at 15%.
Michael Hampden-Turner, a strategist at Citigroup, thinks the American default rate will peak at 11.5% this quarter and fall to 6.5% by the autumn of next year.
They must note, though, that the market is still more than 30% off its peak, and the rate of distressed properties, while substantially lower than in 2009, is still far above the historical average.
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But despite the fact this has pushed us into recession, we'll peak with an unemployment rate of about 6.25 percent, a rate that's one of the lowest we've seen, but also one that just eight years ago, the Federal Reserve thought was intolerably low.
But if prices continue to rise at their current rate, that peak will be passed within a year in America.
And U.S. home prices rose 8.1 percent in January, the fastest annual rate since the peak of the housing boom in the summer of 2006.
There are other taxes paid on incomes (national insurance, our equivalent of social security, Medicaid and so on) making that 40% or so as an income tax rate alone the peak of the curve.
At the peak of the bubble, the rate of homeownership approached 70 percent.
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The coalition forces have recently taken casualties at a much lower rate than at the peak of the insurgency in April.
Under the weak dollar policies of Bush 43 and Obama, the unemployment rate increased to a peak of 10% in 2009 from 4.0% in 2000, and has remained above 8% for 43 consecutive months.
It has not just lowered but halved the benchmark interest rate from its October peak of 43%, and on April 30th the central bank began to widen the real's trading band, in a manner which officials say could lead to slightly slower devaluation than the current 7% a year.
By this August the number of new homes started had fallen to 1.3m at an annual rate, 42% below the peak.
The average risk premium on the country's bonds has fallen from a peak of 18 percentage points above the interest rate on United States' Treasury bonds to below six.
You want a guarantee of safety - not something along the lines of "if we peak at date X and reduce emissions at rate Y that gives you Z% chance of not being flooded out of existence".
Has the 50% rate taken us over the Laffer Curve peak or not?
En route to a peak in the low double digits, the default rate would rise to 6.6% over the next 12 months, by our estimation.
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