If the underlying growth rate of productive capacity had remained the same, this would imply that the economy was operating around 10% below its potential output.

如果生产能力潜在生长率保持不变，意味着经济比其潜在产出能力减少10%。

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Through improvement, there are a great increase in the production capacity, screening efficiency and system operating rate.

改造后生产能力、筛分效率、系统运转率均有较大提高。

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As I posted in August, companies are operating with considerable slack (their rate of capacity utilization is a mere 77.5% below the 81% long-term average).

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The rise in inflation suggests that the economy is already operating well above capacity, so growth will need to be slowed more sharply to below its trend rate.

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Rather than the tumbling yen being more evidence of economic incompetence, the exchange rate is the mechanism that redistributes demand away from economies that are operating at full capacity towards those in recession.

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