The rates used in the study are from the G.5 Foreign Exchange Rates series provided by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Series ID: EXCAUS).
Chicago, $112.8 million of sales tax revenue refunding bonds, variable rate series 2002.
"Jersey Shore," the channel's highest rated series ever, ended in December after six seasons.
Prematurely cancelled after one 13-episode season it subsequently achieved notoriety as FX's lowest ever rated series.
Times Books is well into the American Presidents, a first-rate series, overseen by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., that offers well-edited, sharply written lives in a uniform format.
The ratio increases fastest between the first half of 2008 and the first half of 2009, just when the marginal tax rate series increases the most.
Both indexes are measured after taxes and employee subsidies according to single marginal tax-rate series, so their gap reflects changes in the immediate profit from hiring.
Lifetime also announced Thursday that it has ordered a second season of its drama "Army Wives," which has quickly become the highest rated series in the cable channel's 23-year history.
Though a Showtime spokeswoman would not confirm the numbers, she said the performance of "Fat Actress" was the network's highest rated series debut in five years, since "Queer as Folk" in 2000.
The trend is typified on TV by highly rated series like "Dancing With the Stars" and "So You Think You Can Dance," as well as movies like "High School Musical" on the Disney Channel, which is spawning a sequel next month.
"Storage Wars" — which adapts the high-octane, competition-oriented format of Beers's earlier hits to the less-rugged world of delinquent-storage-unit auctions — became A&E's highest rated series ever last year.
