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But in many ways, the tightened credit make sense. We are living in the aftermath of the greatest credit bubble since the Roaring '20s, after all. Standards were too loose and had to change. At the same time, problems at many banks are contributing to the new, more conservative lending...
So what happens as the economy rebounds and companies start to pull themselves together? Once firms are in better shape and the recovery instills confidence in businesses to start investing again, will they be able to go back to banks and start borrowing?
That's actually when we might start to see a problem, according to Raj Date, executive director of the Cambridge Winter Center for Financial Institutions Policy. In congressional testimony on March 2, he made the case that as the demand for loans from creditworthy borrowers picks back up, there might...
The reason for their angst is clear enough: throughout 2009, the most severe global downturn in decades, China's economic growth remained intact. This year, China's GDP will likely rise 9% or more, in contrast to a merely subpar recovery in the U.S. and Europe. For thousands of companies...
For now, though, Demand still needs humans - namely, writers, editors and video producers - to crank out content. That's where its horde of more than 7,000 freelancers comes in. One person earns a few cents for taking the algorithm's output and turning it into a headline. Another person...