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Still, roughly 25% of final exports from Asia are bound for America, and with consumer spending in the U.S. slipping, the manufacturing engines that drive many Asian countries are starting to sputter. The most vulnerable are those with high dependence on exports, such as Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam. In...
Consumer confidence is also being dented by sliding property prices. India's property market, which has seen 30% to 50% annual price growth in recent years, is weakening. "The sustained climate of high interest rates, combined with an equity bear market, has been putting downward pressure on pricing across real...
The current crisis reminds us that, in a free economy, the price of the greatly improved long-term performance that only free economies can provide is an ineradicable economic cycle. As John Maynard Keynes pointed out in the 1930s, the cause of the cycle is alternating moods of optimism and...
Rebrand the Bill The word bailout is a deal killer. "People feel the breaks are being given to financial institutions and not to the consumer," says Slovic. He recommends calling it a Consumer Protection Act. It may be too late for this change to have much impact, but any change...
For a business-news layman, I follow these issues fairly closely, especially as they affect consumer areas like the housing market. (I even wrote a TIME cover story in 2005 on America's obsession with home prices - with considerable help from our business staff - so it's not like I...