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...Octagon's calculation makes sense, but it's a delicate balance. Even if your company can afford a little frivolity now, shouldn't that cash be stocked away in case things get even worse in 2009, as every economist in the world is predicting? "You absolutely walk a fine line of sending the wrong message to your business, vendors or clients about the health of your business," says Paul Swangard, director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at Oregon University. "You have to be respectful of the environment, but if you're a marketer looking to reach a certain audience...
...probably not done yet. "Our outlook is that home prices will continue to fall, bottoming by the end of this year, but it won't be until the end of 2010, maybe even 2011, that we'll see steady price gains," says Celia Chen, an economist at Moody's Economy.com. Chen and her colleagues predict that home prices, as measured by Case-Shiller, are due to drop some 30% from their early-2006 peak. We're only about two-thirds of the way there. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...said they were simply part of a decades-long, bipartisan push - from Capitol Hill, the White House, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and even bank regulators - for ever more mortgage lending on ever easier terms. Gramm said he arrived in Washington in 1978 convinced as an economist that subsidizing housing and mortgage lending was a bad idea, but was soon won over to Washington's pro-housing consensus. During his 1990 U.S. Senate campaign, he said, polls revealed that 82% of Texas homeowners supported him over his Democratic opponent. After that, "You didn't have to convince...
...billion to its overall position in U.S. debt. (Beijing sold $9.2 billion of long-term U.S. Treasuries in November but bought $38.2 billion of short-term government notes.) Indeed, part of the reason short-term interest rates are so low in the U.S., as Council on Foreign Relations economist Brad Setser notes, is that foreign central banks - including China's - are doing the same thing private investors have been doing: pouring funds into short-term, highly liquid, dollar-based assets. If China reversed course and pulled money out of the U.S. in a big way, it would ravage the value...
...revision was a purely ideological effort to undo a landmark Socialist law, and ignored the fact most companies and workers don't want to change the 35-hour arrangement," says Eric Heyer, an economist and deputy director of the French Economic Observatory in Paris. "And by allowing companies to calculate employee time worked on a yearly rather than strict weekly basis as the previous law required, the 35-hour law provides businesses with badly needed flexibility to adapt to evolving activity at lower cost...