Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Some called it the capitalist equivalent of sinking a 30-foot putt for a triple bogey, and merely shook their heads. But the same technical-minded folks who hate the sight of a downward staircase were feeling mighty good about the spike at the bottom of the three-day slide. To them, it looked like the sellers had gotten tired of selling, tired of assuming the worst about corporate earnings and capital investment, tired of worrying about how far consumer confidence will have fallen when the first post-disaster reports hit the Street. Tired of fear...
...land prices, although rising quickly, are still a modest $8,000 to $12,000 per raw acre, compared with Napa where what little land is left sells for anywhere from $100,000 to $200,000 an acre. Lower costs will take some pressure off profits, as abundant supplies put downward pressure on the prices, particularly from Napa wines...
...percent it hit last October - about the time when the economy was first hitting the skids. Since then, we?ve slipped into what is all but in name a recession - even though we haven't posted the required two consecutive quarters of negative growth, the revised-downward-once-already GDP Q2 growth number of a whopping 0.17 ought to convince you of that. But unemployment numbers tend to rise most on the way out of a recession, and indeed often continue to rise as a recovery gets under...
This time around, both the U.S. and German economies are flatlining, while that of Japan continues its slow, downward spiral. The Japanese unemployment rate has risen to 5%, while the Nikkei stock market index last week touched lows not seen since 1984. The world's three most powerful engines are out of juice. Worry...
...Michigan number used to move hearts and minds back in the spring, when a recession was constantly threatening to swoop down and savage our livestock. But it?s become sort of the default conventional wisdom that consumers? walletary outlook, while probably past its peak, is on the gentlest of downward slopes - and that business-centric numbers like inventory and production are the other shoe worth watching...