The slump in housing construction, the decline of newspapers and a trend toward less packaging and waste all have contributed.
Maybe the world continues its trend of becoming less energy intensive, mitigating demand and alleviating supply pressure .
Reducing federal spending alone is insufficient to restore economic growth to anything approaching its post-World-War-II, 3.2% annual real-growth trend, much less make up lost ground.
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Of course, inventory will probably turn up this spring and summer because of the regular seasonal pattern, but the underlying trend will be less inventory than is typical for each season, not more.
Yet it also appealed to a less trend-conscious demographic, as exemplified by its radio advertising spokesmen, Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh, and Wendy Kaufman, an actual employee who answered Snapple fan mail in wacky TV ads.
The bulk of growth comes from the increase in our population of about 3 million people and the growing need to simply replace stuff that is wearing out, not enough to get the economy back to trend growth much less the strong growth needed to restore employment to 2007 levels.
But, that consumer purchasing trend seems to be less prevalent now as consumers return to smaller stores.
In truth, the push to create urban parish councils suggests a trend he might be less keen on.
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Reflecting the overall trend of Americans charging less, that amount is actually 17% less than 2009, says Bill Hardekopf, Editor of LowCards.com, an independent credit card rating site.
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While big tech companies like Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. typically grab the headlines in patent-infringement cases, Ms. Endress's situation illustrates a less visible trend: Intellectual-property claims against tech startups are rising.
The second, less obvious, trend relates to the idea that these countries, with generally faster growing populations, represent the most lucrative future markets for Chinese exporters.
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The trend has been more or less the same for the past few quarters, and Time Warner Cable has grown its profits despite a dismal performance in its pay-TV business.
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Typically mutual funds is where we are looking at quite substantially right now for really one reason, and those tend to trend better with a lot less risk, so you know you can have market-like rate of return on high-yield-bond mutual funds with historically a third of the downside risk of the markets.
Their actions become--as economists say--"strategic complements" to those who are fueling the trend (and who are often less sophisticated).
Moreover, the strong Brazilian currency trend means that Brazilians can spend less of their own hard earned money, the real, to acquire weak dollar assets like real estate.
Bloomberg reports that the trend of solar power getting steadily less expensive is set to continue over the next decade and is getting close to being competitive with coal.
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And - which is the more important trend - German businesses are becoming less and less reliant on selling to eurozone countries and are becoming more and more successful in selling to China and the leading emerging markets.
When considering the average amount spent per person on virtual goods, however, a trend emerges showing younger gamers are less likely to spend on virtual goods, while older gamers are much more likely to buy that sword or shield to advance in a game.
Asked about the trend for central banks to look less at inflation-targeting and more at policy areas that affect exchange rates, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, said earlier this month that the exchange rate was very important "as far as growth and stability" were concerned but was not a policy target for the ECB.
Moreover, the trend growth in unit labor costs is less than 1% annualized, meaning there is a cap on wages which is a drag on consumer spending.
So, back to the Baby Bust, the question must be considered as to why we should change the clear trend in any developed country to have less people who lead happier lives?
Furthermore, as almost all merchants start out converting 100% of their Bitcoin proceeds into U.S. dollars, the company acknowledged that the trend is heading towards 50% or less as merchants increasingly decide to maintain proprietary Bitcoin balances.
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This counter-intuitive finding begs the question: Why are the most educated women reversing the childless trend when historically women with more education have less or no children?
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Outsourcing debacles like these may be contributing to the overall trend in cybersecurity threats: Companies are suffering less from hackers and more from employee gaffes, says IDC analyst Brian Burke.
Now that the Republicans are testing the electoral waters with less centrist options, you decry this trend.
That trend has stretched into September, with 45% less coverage than September conditions in the 1980s and 1990s.
This trend began in 1994 and led to members much less frequently brining their families with them during their time in office.
The psychology has shifted toward shedding debt, spending less, and saving more, a trend that shows every sign of lasting a generation.
The warming trend means that, every year, there is less old ice and more new ice that has formed in the winter just past.
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