Word: globalization
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...falling apart before the nation's eyes. "Imagine someone about to begin physical therapy following a stroke [and] suddenly contracting a debilitating secondary illness," researchers at the Project for Excellence in Journalism write about the news media's long-overdue embrace of the Internet in 2008, just as a global recession began wreaking havoc on the industry's biggest advertisers. "This is the sixth edition of our annual report," the authors begin. "It is also the bleakest." From magazines and newspapers to local television and radio to the ethnic and alternative presses, it seems that all media took...
...Canadian sales executive for a global media company, who requested anonymity because he is negotiating a severance package with his former employer, is another expat who has been living parsimoniously since being laid off. In the boom years, he occupied a spacious sea-view apartment near downtown Singapore that rented for $5,000 a month. Today he occupies more modest digs, paying about $700 a month for an apartment he shares with a friend. "I'm interested in creature comforts like hot water, but I can do without joining a country club or driving a Lamborghini," he says...
...think this is the latest, depressing tidbit from the historic real estate bust in the United States, think again. The other former global growth engine - China - which saw its own real estate bubble expand in the last five years, has now got its own property market problems - and they're intensifying. (See pictures of Beijing's changing skyline...
...once booming city of Shenzhen are down more than 18% from year-ago levels. Nationwide, according to a recent forecast by economists at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, housing prices in China may decline 10% to 15% this year, as the overall economy struggles amidst the global financial crisis. "Housing prices far surpassed the actual incomes of the general public" over the last five years says CASS economist Chen Xigang. "They are now correcting...
...Chinese government - and indeed, the global economy - a gathering deflationary bust in real estate is a big problem. So-called fixed asset investment accounted for 40% of China's GDP last year - an extraordinarily high figure - and real estate, both commercial and residential, accounted for about one-fifth of that. Given that vacancies among office buildings are also rapidly rising now, this means that one of the prime drivers of growth in China has shifted into reverse...