DaVita is a high-growth company, with revenue increasing at an annual rate of 19% for the last 10 years.
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In both countries the broad measure of money is increasing at an annual rate of around 10% its fastest growth since the late 1980s when inflation last took off (see chart).
Most of us (myself included) will also readily agree that, if equilibrium money wage rates have been increasing at an annual rate of, say, 4 percent (as was approximately true of U.S. average earnings around 2006), then an unexpected decline in that growth rate to another still positive rate can also lead to unemployment.
Between 1865 and 1915, the U.S. economy increased nearly sevenfold, with real incomes increasing at a compound annual rate of more than 2 percent.
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At least, that is likely if hospital costs keep climbing as rapidly as they have been doing for the past several decades (in March, while the CPI as a whole went down for the first time in 17 years, its medical-care component went right on increasing at a 12% annual rate).
Housing starts in January surprised analysts, increasing 14.6% to an annual rate of 596, 000 according to the Commerce Department.
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Labour productivity continues to grow, with non-farm output per hour increasing by 1.1% at an annual rate in the second quarter.
Today's data reveal that real spending on travel and tourism increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2012 after increasing 4.9 percent (revised) in the first quarter of 2012, supporting 7.6 million jobs.
We expect the natural gas production volume to follow an increasing trend, crossing 1300 mcf by the end of the Trefis forecast period, an average annual growth rate of around 5%.
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Until disaster-scarred 2001, its revenue was zooming ahead at a compound annual rate of 15%--triple the industry's average--while earnings per share was increasing 27%.
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