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Had this nation grown at the 4%-rate achieved in the pre-1913 period, we would be twice as well-off today.
FORBES: Obama Is An Awful Economic Historian
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With no discernable threat, China's unprecedented force modernization program has grown at a double-digit rate for the past 10 years.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Underestimating China
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In the past two years non-defense federal spending has grown at the fastest rate since 1992.
FORBES: Wonderful Wesbury
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Since the end of 2008 business-sector productivity has grown at an impressive annualised rate of 4.2% while hourly compensation has crept ahead by just 2.1%.
ECONOMIST: Corporate profits in America
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In the last few years, Internet sales have grown at a much faster rate than sales at brick-and-mortar retailers.
FORBES: Target Tweaks Website, Stock Heading To $58
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Over the last three years, per-share book value has grown at a 14% annual rate.
FORBES: Laser-Like Focus On Cash Flow
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While prescriptions for all 20-44-year-olds had grown by 139% over five years, the rate for women had jumped by 164%.
ECONOMIST: Women with attention deficit disorder
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Spotify, a music-streaming service created by Swedish programmers that has grown at an astonishing rate, is trying to move from dependence on advertising to subscriptions.
ECONOMIST: Media conglomerates in the downturn
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Monday, before the vote, the so-called TED spread, or the gap between the rate at which banks will trade with each other and three-month Treasury bills had grown to 348 basis points from 200 basis points last week, which shows a continued lockup of the credit markets.
FORBES: The Banks
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Those factors point to the possibility of an interest-rate cut, and Bernanke dovishly raised the prospect of one, but investors seem to have grown tired of waiting.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Overall, U.S. industry has become among the most productive in the world--output has doubled over the past 25 years, and productivity has grown at a rate twice that of the rest of the economy.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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And as Poland's growth rate has grown worse, so has the outlook for coal: experts now reckon the industry must slim to 80m-85m tonnes a year, and 90, 000-100, 000 jobs.
ECONOMIST: The miners fight off government plans to slim the industry