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...signal to expand," Schwer explains. "And interest rates dropped, so there was readily available cash to do just that." Jan Freitag, a hotel analyst at Smith Travel Research, agrees: "There was the sense that if you build it, they will come - that there was this pent-up demand...
...global recession lasts. They are part of the population cohort the government hopes will boost domestic consumption, which takes up a mere 35% of the country's GDP right now, and thereby wean the country off export-dependent growth. China has long been concerned about its sluggish domestic consumer demand and recently vowed to expand it by injecting $586 billion into nationwide infrastructure. But a dwindling confidence in the economy seems to be getting in the way of the government's agenda. Here in the industrial town of Dagang, just south of Tianjin, instead of spending more to spur...
...financial institutions teetered or collapsed, several of Iraq's 18 provinces, including Diyala in the northeast, suffered their own cash crunch, literally running out of cash. Bank notes. Bills. Some public-sector bank branches, mainly in Diyala, ran out of physical bank notes because of a combination of unforeseen demand and a lapse in importing new currency notes from printers based overseas. It is the latest inefficiency to stymie the country's long-delayed reconstruction efforts...
...only recently rectified. "We had some temporary problems," he said, explaining that they were precipitated by the government's public-sector pay raises that took effect in July. "There should be more coordination between the central bank and the government to assess and to project for the demand for currency by the government." That is quite the understatement...
...Yule Log is now available on demand, in HD, and as a downloadable podcast. It's been the subject of a TV documentary, A Log's Life. Visitors to Stephen Colbert's website can watch their own Book Burning Yule Log. And for the full meta effect, there's even a YouTube video where you can watch the Log burning on a TV screen on your computer...