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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...necessarily a bad thing to borrow money, and it's hard to say what the right debt ratio or savings rate might be. But Americans can't keep running up bigger and bigger debts forever. At some point we have to pay them back or default...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bracing for a Recession | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...across the economy, lasting more than a few months." Will it, though? The equation must factor in global demand for U.S. exports, the path of the dollar, the price of oil and other influences that make it more or less impossible to solve. What seems clear is that the borrow-and-spend era has come to an end, or at the very least a prolonged pause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bracing for a Recession | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

...wafers a month, which will significantly increase the $1 to $1.5 billion the?company already annually invests to keep its fabs on the cutting edge. And that leads to another major reason Sandisk is in Japan: the country's?advanced capital structure and low interest rates let the company borrow money cheaply. Clustering may work well, but other aspects of a country's competitiveness - like its macroeconomic fundamentals - still matter. "The bottom line," says the Economic Competitiveness Group's Hansen, "is you have to do everything right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Face of Globalization | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...guard with excellent rebounding skills for a six-footer.Cornell checks out well in the key indicators. Last season, it was second in the league in scoring margin, second in field-goal percentage, and first in field-goal defense. The major question mark is the lack of a Windex man, to borrow a Dick Vitale-ism—someone to clean the glass. Physical center Andrew Naeve is gone, but coach Steve Donahue drew a 7’0 transfer from St. Bonaventure, Jeff Foote, to help fill the lane.2. COLUMBIAA fellow Crimson writer—let’s just...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '07: IN LEHMAN'S TERMS: Around the Ivies | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...trying to demonstrate that it was rampant hypocrisy for Bush to say: 'Ooh that $20 billion in education, health care and sciences is going to unbalance the budget,'" Obey said in a ghoulish tone, shaking his hands for effect. "'But, ooh it's a national necessity to borrow $200 billion for this misbegotten war in Iraq.' Ten times as much money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Bush on the Cost of War | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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