Before I left on this trip, I spotted a few tulips peaking through at a garden in Berkeley Square.

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After peaking through June-July 2006, home prices spiraled into free fall as the worst of a mortgage backed securities-fueled bubble exploded into a global financial crisis.

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Options volume shot through the roof, peaking at 52, 610 contracts midweek, the day the scandal broke, against 240, 506 total open interest.

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And when the Great Recession hit, the ratio went through the roof, peaking at between 5:1 and 7:1 (depending on the data source used) and now still between 3:1 and 4:1.

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All in all, supply will lag demand, growing only 2.2% annually on average through 2014, and peaking in 2017-2018 at about 250 million popunds, after which it will begin to fall.

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Audio can be monitored through the headphone jack and levels can be displayed on the LCD with peaking.

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