Smelting capacity in China has risen 25 per cent annually for three years, outstripping the 10-15 per cent yearly increase in demand, forcing it to export excess production.
What is more, grain prices have tripled in the past year, easily outstripping world prices.
Economic activity now appears to have declined by 4.1% from peak to trough, easily outstripping the 3.7% dip observed in the downturn of 1957-58 (in 1981-82 the drop was just under 3%).
Its Fine Wine 50 index rose by 57% last year, far outstripping gold (+35%), crude oil (+20%) and the FTSE 100 (+11%).
It's all too easy to run up thousands of dollars of debt - with our spending constantly outstripping our earning.
"The growth in demand is outstripping most campuses' ability to meet it, " says William W. Hoffa, a former study-abroad adviser at Amherst College who now consults independently.
The report warns that demand for nurses is close to outstripping supply.
But by April last year, demand was far outstripping supply and the price began to rocket.
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