Now that we are in a rapid growth period, I can really see what Tony Hsieh meant.
Some of you regular readers thought the government was lying about real GDP growth by understating inflation during this "growth" period.
They point out that money supply growth ran 2.4 percent faster than nominal GDP growth during this period, when it had run below nominal GDP growth in 1959-69, 1969-79, and 1979-95, as would be expected with velocity increasing due to technological advance.
These are some pretty impressive growth numbers during a pretty horrible economic period, and growth will likely continue in 2010.
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Kansas lagged the nation as a whole, with only 4% job growth over this period.
As it was, the U.S. managed little more than 2% growth in that period.
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Hopefully, economic growth during this period will make these targets easier to achieve because of increased revenue.
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The momentum continued in Asia, Europe and the United States, while Japan returned to growth over the period.
This represented a 13.5% revenue growth over this period (note that 2009 experienced a -8.5% revenue hit due to the recession).
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So, without those two, the underlying rate of growth in this period would be closer to the long-term average of 0.5-to-0.6% a quarter.
In contrast, the CBO is projecting only 3.62% growth from FY2012 through FY2014, and the Ryan plan offers only 3.7% growth for this period.
In the past four years, public expenditure has risen by 4.4% a year in real terms nearly double the rate of economic growth over the period.
Moreover, recent indicators, including new claims for unemployment insurance and surveys of hiring plans, point to the likelihood of more sluggish job growth in the period ahead.
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Despite this, the CBO is forecasting growth over the next 75 years of only 2.16%, and the Social Security Trustees are projecting only 2.22% growth during this period.
All months showed double-digit levels of growth for the period.
Business in developing countries will rise 17% a year through 2010, representing 40% of GE's total revenue growth during that period, reckons Nicholas Heymann, an analyst with Prudential Securities.
Since inception, unique user count went from 3, 086 in June to 8, 737 in December, which represents a period growth rate of 183% or average monthly growth rate of 30.5%.
An increase of 0.53 percentage points in economic growth over the 75-year period would bring average GDP growth up to 2.75% and would increase the PV75 of Social Security tax receipts by the required 20%.
For instance, at Goldman revenue growth is down 31% over the three-year period from 2010 through the first half of 2012, but headcount growth is down just 1% in the same period.
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Bankers often project growth above the trendline, which is usually baseless optimism, especially in a period of slow growth.
It called for both governments to "maintain a clear focus on tackling the barriers to growth" and support business through a prolonged period of below-trend growth.
Fidelity Puritan has an average holding period of about eight months, according to Morningstar, and Fidelity Dividend Growth has an average holding period of a year and a half.
I. (Before Internet), Rock told a reporter that the great period of growth was over.
Google's founders credit Schmidt with successfully managing their company's most intense period of growth.
During the same period job growth has limped along at an average 0.6% annually.
This tentative stance could likely further restrict economic and stock market growth over this time period.
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Cloud-based BI and analytics will see an 84% compound annual growth rate over this period.
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But the report said many farmers were expecting a period of growth over the next five years.
Thus, any prolonged period of growth in the manufacturing sector would help reduce dependency on the public sector.
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Yet it is now becoming clear that, if there is growth in the current period, it will be anemic, perhaps 1% or 2%.
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