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...automobile business is great. Just ask someone who's in it. "People want to buy cars," says Rod Buscher, CEO of Summit Automotive Partners in Denver, which owns 30 assorted dealerships nationwide. And he really wants to sell cars. The problem is that would-be buyers lack either the income or the access to credit that would allow them to drive a new Malibu or Lincoln or Camry off the lot. That won't last forever; in fact, the automobile business figures to be good in 2011 and terrific in 2012 - which also happens to be an election year...
What both the E.U. and Turkey lack is vision. Accession-skeptics on both sides tend to take today's E.U. (still digesting the 2004 and 2007 enlargements), add today's Turkey (sometimes prickly as it struggles to solidify its democracy) and then conclude that this could never work. But by, say, 2020 both Turkey and Europe will hopefully have changed in ways that make them a perfect fit. To throw away that historic opportunity would be a mistake of historic proportions...
...firms with an eye on an eventual recovery, one of the main reasons to cut working hours and not jobs is that it reduces costs at the same time as preserving the talent base. But cutting hours also adds to the bigger macroeconomic problem currently hammering the world economy: lack of demand. Pay cuts eat into consumer spending, which in turn amounts to more bad news for a world economy in need of stimulus. "If you go too far, you'll just aggravate the demand crisis," says Torres...
...successes: “...to my credit was my despair; to my credit were my prayers, and to my credit is my love.” But ultimately more intriguing is Jerzy’s mental block on the question of alcohol and the nagging doubt that this lack of resolution instills in the affixed reader: “…in my case especially it’s impossible, to live a long and happy life when you drink. But how can you live a long and happy life if you don’t drink...
...other words, China will seek to spend more, and the U.S. will seek to spend less. Many economists are critical of the lack of specific policy solutions beyond these acknowledgements, saying the imbalances and the resulting distorting effects on currency exchange rates should have been a central agenda item at the G-20. "Unless and until surplus countries recognize that this cannot continue, no durable escape from the crisis will be achieved," Martin Wolf, author of Fixing Global Finance and the Financial Times' economics columnist, wrote in Wednesday's edition. "Understandably, but foolishly, they are unwilling...