In the first half of 2009, the industry was producing vehicles at a rate of 6.5 million a year, while sales were running at a rate of just under 10 million vehicles a year.
Hindering them is an inflation rate running as high as it is, in a recession.
Yes, new orders climbed a respectable 11% in the last 3 months-but cancellations of home purchases are running at a rate of 20%.
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Though debt and unemployment (now running at a rate of nearly 15%) remain high, the port and infrastructure are being spruced up and new industry is moving in.
Mr King's remarks, however, implied that he at least is in no hurry to make an early move: he highlighted the squeeze on living standards from an inflation rate running well ahead of earnings growth.
These kinds of meetings are likely to become increasingly common in the years ahead as the federal government seeks to pare a budget deficit currently running at the rate of about a billion dollars every six hours.
Deliveries to airlines that ordered new planes near the top of the cycle are running at a rate of about 100 a month and will continue at that pace well into next year because the penalties for late cancellation are so high.
The number of properties started was running at an annual rate of more than one million.
Consider that inflation is already starting to perk-up (running at an annual rate of 3.6%).
Inflation, according to one foreign embassy, is running at an annualised rate of 60%.
By May the state's unemployment rate was running at the national average of 9.4%.
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These days California's unemployment rate is running at 11.5%, two points ahead of the national average.
In late 2009 and early 2010, it was running at an annualized rate of over 5 percent.
At one point, auto sales in 2009 were running at an annual rate of 9.0 million vehicles.
It could be that the economy is running at a hotter rate, relative to its capacity, than the chancellor thinks.
The new version, recently launched, has been greeted with rave reviews and sales are running about double the rate of its predecessor.
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Economic growth was a resilient 4% in 2000 and was running at the same rate in the first nine months of 2001.
And the inflation rate is running about 5% while Treasuries offer 2%.
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He said this was the reason repossessions were running at half the rate of the last recession, under a Conservative government, in the 1990s.
Inflation, running at an annual rate of 2.8% in October, is not yet a worry, though labour shortages may yet make wages take off.
General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler each reported December U.S. sales that exceeded expectations and industry-wide sales are running at an annualized rate of over 15 million.
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For instance, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, model year 2012 plug-in hybrid sales of cars like the Chevy Volt are running at triple the rate of last year, and hybrids are up almost 50 percent compared to 2011.
Inflation is running well above the target rate and unlikely to subside until June.
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The same dynamic which is driving investors to buy 10-year Treasury notes at under 2.00%, again willing to accept a negative real return on their capital while inflation is running at a 3% rate.
These can include the ability to track your heart rate on a running app, collaborate with team members on Dropbox documents or simply throw an even more dizzying array of birds on even more gluttonous pigs.
In a world where annual inflation is running at a 3% rate (actually more if you think for a moment about your rising healthcare and educational costs), there is an overwhelming demand for a security whose rate of return is a negative real (inflation-adjusted) rate of 3%.
No surprise to us sentiment sniffers, because the GDP growth rate had also been running at about 5%.
Most have abandoned their old exchange-rate pegs, are running large current-account surpluses, and have built up ample foreign-exchange reserves.
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