If China seeks to maintain historical rates of real growth, then inflation will accelerate.
Investments that have performed poorly will typically do better; those that have done well will fall to their longer-term historical rates.
While that is in line with historical rates of return for the market, it takes into account neither investment fees nor taxes.
If we were to operate all fisheries sustainably, we could extract fish from the oceans at maximum historical rates and carry on indefinitely.
But those historical rates prevailed at times when fiscal deficits and federal government debt were much lower than they are today.
"The foreign exchange committee believes that rolling contracts at historical rates is a dangerous practice which should be avoided absent compelling justification and procedural safeguards," the 1991 letter said.
Third, the long-term trend of productivity, if properly measured, looks significantly slower than was thought only a couple of months ago -- and, contrary to some reports, remains well below historical rates of growth.
What's the difference between buying a stock and just flat out lending Joe the money?" Mr. Jenkins describes historical rates of return and risk characteristics of stocks, bonds, C.D.'s and real estate.
And a quick look at historical rates of benefits collected by the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows a mixed picture on which welfare payments have risen in value over that time.
Such breakthroughs should prove crucial to keeping the overall performance of computers increasing at historical rates, since it's the communication between things like memory, hard drives and processors that often limit hardware designers today.
Students from areas of Wales with the lowest historical rates of higher education have been accepted to university in greater numbers than elsewhere, with a 14% increase this year.
