The August deficit puts the annual shortfall on track to reach $379 billion, compared with the record $265 billion in 1999.
Because the voting-age population has grown, the turnout was 17percentt of those eligible, compared with the record of 17.4 in 1976.
Compared with the record-breaking US opening of $42m£29m9m) at the weekend, this is a poor result – going by rule of thumb, the film would have been expected to open in the UK with £4.2m.
At the same time, China is grabbing much of the new foreign investment in Asia, leaving its once-glittering neighbors -- Thailand, South Korea, Singapore -- with crumbs compared with the record $50 billion China is expected to gain this year.
But those levels look fantastic compared with the record of the 79th District, a nine-block area of engine repair shops and battered three-story brick homes wedged between Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill and Williamsburg.
This represented a year-on-year increase of 0.5% but a fall of 1.2% compared with the record circulation posted in the six months to the end of 2009.
There have been no bold predictions from anyone in the industry about the next three months, especially since this season is being compared with the record 57.3 million skier and snowboarder visits of last season.
Almost a beggarly sum, it turned out to be, compared with the record $7 million advance that was put on the tabzaple Wednesday by two publishers before John F. Welch Jr., chairman and chief executive of General Electric, for his chronicle of success.
