Since 1948, every time the four-quarter change has fallen below 2 percent, the economy has entered a recession
h finds that the collapse in real-time economic data over the past three months is the sharpest in history.
Opponents have questioned why such a large amount of land – equal to about 0.3 per cent of Iceland’s total area – is needed to build a hotel. They warned that the project could provide cover for China’s geopolitical interests in the Atlantic island nation and Nato member
Italy's brief flirt with Austerity, disclosed on August 12, lasted all of 2 weeks
As expected (see Global Research Alert 2 May) the spectre of deflation has returned to the fore as western governments now focus on austerity measures as a means of restoring confidence. In the US, the property market remains the worrying part of the economy. Although still at 3.6% in the US and at 2.7% in Europe, inflation may drop in the coming months owing to the economic slowdown. Thus, with unemployment still at 9.1%, it seems illusory to expect inflation in the coming 12 months and hence there is no risk of bond yields climbing. The bond market suggests the real thing to worry about is deflation, again calling to mind Japan’s lost decade. This is clearly an extreme scenario but nevertheless a major threat for western economies.
Current policies, however altruistic its adherents and defenders may be, promote polarization (class warfare), and, most importantly, among those at the margin, especially in the young, poor mental health, which spills over in predictably unpredictable behavior.
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According to CoreLogic, national home prices, including distressed sales, declined by 6.8 percent in June 2011 compared to June 2010
The reality is every solution that's being offered by the policymakers is more and more liquidity, and the reality is this is not a liquidity problem, this is a structural problem," he added. "And the policy makers have done nothing to address the structural issues
This is because Singapore’s trade with the U.S. accounts for about 20 percent of its GDP – the largest exposure among emerging Asian economies.
here’s a lot of research on un-wantedness and tremendous historical data sets from social science of the last fifty years that suggest that if your mother doesn’t love you, nothing good will happen to you in life. The lowest common denominator for having a kid who turns out well is the kid being loved
Nouriel Roubini : QE3 will be launched by the year end, reason being that the US is heading for a recession and a liberal monetary policy is one of the few policy measures remaining with the Federal Reserve. According to him the likelihood of a double-dip recession is 50 percent.
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