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• “Depressions marked by balance sheet compression”

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  “”"Recessions are typically characterized by inventory cycles – 80% of the decline in GDP is typically due to the de-stocking in the manufacturing sector. Traditional policy stimulus almost always works to absorb the excess by stimulating domestic demand. Depressions often are marked by balance sheet compression ...
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• Krugman: Jobs Program Needed

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 689
  Paul Krugman argues that “the recession is probably over in a technical sense” the government must nonetheless treat the 10.2 unemployment rate as a crisis because there are “six times as many Americans seeking work as there are job openings, and the average duration of unemployment — the time the average ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Inflation Detour II: Crisis and Recovery across Great "Fluctuations"

  
  Angry Bear — Authority: 629
  We are now almost 24 months into the Great Recession. While many expect NBER will eventually say that The Great Recession ended several months ago, they have not yet. By contrast, the recession that began The Great Depression, per NBER, lasted 43 months . It seems only fair to compare the two, so I trust I can be ...
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• Successful Rentin Holiday Businesses

  
  IENACE — Authority: 142
  There’s a growing number of people realising that being motivated and self employed can be generally safer in an economic downturn than working as an employee for somebody else! Its a known fact that many successful businesses are started in an economic downturn.  The important part of business start-up is ...
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• Danger: Dubai crisis could trigger new global panic!!!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  In Dubai they have multiple skyscrapers many almost totally vacant and many have false floors so as to enable them to be built even taller even though they can’t be filled, with the emphasis on the tallness of the building for show, rather than the economy of using it. Banksters have been pumping up relate estate in ...
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• This Thanksgiving

  
  Emotional Fitness — Authority: 92
  Some years are better than others. This one in particular has been more difficult largely due to the economic crisis, which has put millions out of work and made millions more fear that they will be next. Add to that the lost savings and homes, adult children moving back in with their parents (and perhaps with kids of ...
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• Goodbye recession, hello cowardly new world

  
  Times LIVE Blogs - Posts — Authority: 153
  NEWS that South Africa’s economy has moved into the black is to be welcomed. The statistics show that for the third quarter of this year, the economy notched up growth of 0.9% thanks to a big push from the manufacturing sector. But being out of recession does not automatically mean that the good times will roll. The ...
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• Reinhart on Financial Crises

  
  EconTalk — Authority: 552
  Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (co-authored with Kenneth Rogoff). They discuss the role of capital inflows in financial crises, the challenges of learning the right lessons, ...
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• Canada: Aggressive liquor sales targets a blurred vision

  
  Fight Hangovers — Authority: 157
  Link: http://thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1153806.html RACHEL BRIGHTON ADVENTUROUS young women in Halifax could be a boon for the ailing provincial economy — if only they would drink more alcohol. According to the Nova Scotia Liquor Corp., women in the capital city, up to 45 years of age, present the ...
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• QUICK Hits

  
  The Quick and the Ed — Authority: 573
  College costs keep rising.  Navigating these rough waters, should states choose Scylla (raising taxes) or Charybidis (raising tuition)? (Center for College Affordability and Productivity) Even ESPN calls poker a “sport.”  But as more students develop a gambling addiction, should colleges come to the table ...
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• Why No One Expects a Strong Recovery

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  One of the strongest factors promoting recovery from our 10 post-World War II recessions was an unshakable conviction that, regardless of the immediate trouble, the American economy is fundamentally strong. Based on this underlying confidence, recessions and recoveries roughly conformed to the principle of the bigger ...
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• One in 10 Brit teens branded ‘Neet’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Nov 20 (ANI): One in 10 British teenagers is unemployed and not in education, according to latest official figures.The Government has a target to reduce the proportion of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) to 7.6 percent by next year.But the latest annual data from the end of 2008 ...
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• The Great Disconnect Between Stocks and Jobs

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 143
  In the Great Recession of 2008-2009, companies are going a step further. They’re using this sharp downturn to cut payrolls even below where they were when times were good. Outsourcing abroad, setting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• U.S. recovery seen subdued, jobless rate high: OECD (Reuters)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 168
  Reuters – The U.S. economic recovery will be weaker than after previous deep recessions, and the high jobless rate will decline only slowly, the OECD said on Thursday. See the original post here:  (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">U.S. recovery seen subdued, jobless rate high: OECD (Reuters)
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• EU budget for 2010 to increase by six percent

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Brussels, Nov 19 (DPA) Following tough negotiations, European Union (EU) governments and the European Parliament have agreed on the bloc’s budget for 2010.A decision was reached to increase expenditure by six percent to 122.9 billion euros (about $183 billion), EU diplomats said Wednesday night in Brussels. The ...
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• We Like Chocolate and Beer. Cigarettes, Not That Much

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Turns out candy is dandy, at least during recessions. Beer is pretty OK, too, but cigarettes are a vice that even smokers increasingly say they aint worth it. Overall, says the latest customer satisfaction survey by the University of Michigans Ross School of Business, American consumers are as happy with grocery-store ...
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