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...recessions-whether through layoffs or simply not hiring workers they would have otherwise. Immediately coming out of a recession, smaller companies were an unusually important source of new job growth, but once economic expansion really took hold, large companies resumed the role of job-creator, added proportionately more positions late in the business cycle. (See what businesses are doing well despite the recession...
...Sophomore Katharine Chute gets called for cross-checking. Time to test out the Harvard penalty kill, which has been flawless of late...
After the bursting of Japan’s asset bubble in the late 1980s, its economy showed little growth in a period known as the “Lost Decade.” Over the following years, Japan injected capital into banks that were likely to be insolvent so that they could stay open without dealing with the reality of their liabilities. This story sounds grimly similar to the Troubled Assets Relief Program, by which the Treasury handed $700 billion to the nation’s banks with little positive result. The consequences of the Japanese—and hence...
...religion, war, and love, and the days we wanted to awkwardly fist-pump to his infectious rhythms. Kanye strains himself for a decent rhyme scheme; the best that the lethargic “Heartbreak” can conjure is, “Bad enough that I showed up late / I had to leave before they even cut the cake / Welcome to heartbreak.” The trippy visual concept is admittedly cool, except, well, it was also cool two years ago when the kitschy electronic-pop group Chairlift did the same thing in their video for “Evident...
...departure of U.S. forces from his country. Maliki, after all, had opposed the Bush Administration's decision to increase U.S. troop levels in the surge of 2007, and he had forced a reluctant Washington to accept a hard deadline for withdrawal in the Status of Forces Agreement adopted late last year. The growing abilities of the Iraqi security forces and the strengthening of his political position after last month's provincial elections have added to Maliki's confidence in managing without the Americans. "We welcome such a decision and support it," said Tahseen al-Shekhli, a spokesman for the Iraqi...