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Depending on the source, Japan's mythic "Lost Decade" lasted from 1989 to 2003, or sometime later if the exact bottom of the real estate market in the Asian nation is taken into account. Because the period began with easy access to capital followed by a sharp drop in the stock market and property values, it is now being compared to what many economists believe began in the US two years ago. They fear, probably with good reason, that GDP growth will simply stay in a narrow band of extremely modest growth or no growth at all and the lack...
...dramatic drop in demand could be either very good or very bad for traditional banks. It could mean that the nonbank, or "shadow bank," system is less appealing to borrowers than traditional banks in uncertain times, and so they are going to regular banks for loans instead. Or more ominously, it could mean there is an overall dramatic drop in borrowing, which would hurt everybody...
...immigration laws, released a report with the somewhat triumphal title "Homeward Bound." Its authors argued that census data showed that approximately 1.3 million illegal immigrants had left the U.S. from August 2007 to May 2008. At that rate, their number would be halved in five years. Because the drop-off predated the worst of the recession, the report argued, the decline showed that the get-tough policies passed at the end of the Bush Administration were working. Members of Congress like Republican Representative Tom Feeney of Florida were on hand for a press conference with the report's authors...
...South Africa Zuma's Path to Power Cleared South African prosecutors have dropped corruption charges against African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma, ending an eight-year legal saga in which Zuma was accused of accepting bribes to impede an investigation into a multibillion-dollar arms deal. The decision to drop the charges comes just two weeks before the country's presidential election, clearing the way for a near certain victory for Zuma. Members of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa's main opposition party, are demanding a judicial review, accusing prosecutors of "buckling to political pressure." Zuma, who had long called...
...been able to post an answer in my still Twitter-less state, but I’m sorry I wasn’t able to help, anyway. I realized the full extent of my addiction when Shaq didn’t update his Twitter for a while (did you drop your Shaqberry in the toilet again?) and then wrote mainly run-of-the-mill tweets (why are you pulling away like this?). I realized at this point that his Twitter had become relatively indispensable to my daily schedule. Why? I wondered. Why would the combination of Twitter and basketball (neither...