Last year, some 3, 000 Afghan civilians died in the Afghan War out of a population of 30 million, which makes the civilian death rate from the Afghan war 1 in 10, 000.
Proving yet again that war is the health of the state, Congress raised the top rate to 77 percent during World War I.
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Angola, still teetering between peace and war, has an inflation rate of 2, 800%.
Is it structured to fend off the asset-eroding potential of triggers such as so-called Black Swan events, Black Monday-level market implosions, interest and inflation rate swings, war or an oil supply disruption?
As it happens, progress in improving health for the total population as measured by expected length of life at birth proceeded at not far from the same rate before World War II and after World War II.
The unemployment rate of disabled veterans from the Gulf War era was 5.4 percent, essentially the same as the rate for nondisabled veterans (5.2 percent).
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Military service benefits civilian life
The liquidity and trading in those older issues is so tiny that it doesn't give much guidance as to the potential cost for the government of borrowing substantial sums at what are known as ultra long maturities - but for what it's worth the 1932 war loan pays an implicit interest rate of 3.9% at its current price.
Under the post-World War II gold standard, the unemployment rate averaged only 4.7% a year and never rose above 7%.
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Even in the face of a Great Depression, a World War, a Cold War, recessions, oil shocks, inflation and unemployment, Congress never sought to require the purchase of wheat or war bonds, force a higher savings rate or greater consumption of American goods, or require every American to purchase a more fuel efficient vehicle.
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Japan's March jobless rate stood at a post-war record high of 4.9% with 3.5m people out of work.
So over a five-year period -- the typical recession since World War II has been followed by a growth rate of a little less than 4.2 percent over five years.
MacArthur had the lowest casualty rate of any major commander of World War II.
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Less than six years after hitting 10.8%, the post-war record, in 1982, America's jobless rate was close to 5%.
After the immediate post-war disarmament, Britain began to rearm at a faster rate than at any time in its peacetime history.
If America wants to recapture its 3.3% average rate of growth it has enjoyed since World War II, it had better get serious about removing the tax and regulatory barriers for these kind of startups with the potential to scale.
Since World War II, air travel has grown at roughly twice the rate of economic growth.
An economy left in ruins by the years of war and violent revolution in the 1970s and 80s grew at a rate of almost 10% a year from 1998 to 2008.
Perhaps not surprisingly, every ten-year period ending in 1941 through 1951 had an average growth rate of 5% or more, thanks to World War II and the rebound from the Great Depression.
Growth was just fine in this era 3.3% per year in real terms, exactly the rate of growth that prevailed in the long post-World War II run that is so famous, 1945-73.
Right now, he sees vast similarities between the bond market today and the low-interest rate world with high debt-to-GDP after World War II that led to a generational bear market in bonds.
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Those born right after World War II will earn, on average, a 2.4% real rate of return.
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In years to come, warns veteran oil analyst Matthew Simmons, to keep up supply the world will need to build new rigs at a rate not seen since the "Liberty Ship" drive of World War II.
August 2005 statistics in the Current Population Survey (CPS) put out by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that the unemployment rate for U.S. Armed Forces veterans was 3.9%, with 3.4 million Gulf War-era veterans (post 1990) in the labor force whose jobless rate was 5.2%.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Military service benefits civilian life
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