Since the financial crisis, interest rates continued to be at historic low levels, as various pieces of economic data were not exactly extremely positive or displayed real improvement. (etfdb.com)
This is expected to lead to private house starts increasing 19.0 % in 2013 and 15.0 % in 2014, albeit from historic low levels of house building. (politics.co.uk)
Substances at historic low levels of use include alcohol and cigarettes, heroin, prescription opioids, MDMA (Ecstasy or Molly), methamphetamine, amphetamines, and sedatives. (drugabuse.gov)