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...early 1980s and today - you find an important difference. The Reagan recession ended with workers returning to jobs that were the same as or similar to the ones they had lost. But 1930s joblessness was structural. The jobs people lost - largely in agriculture - never came back. Workers had to move to the industrial sector, a transition helped by the demands of a war. It was massive national hysteresis. Sound familiar? "A lot of the jobs that have been lost will never come back," the Peterson Institute's Kirkegaard says. Which means that hiccup in Okun's law is a warning...
...fallen from a high of over 80 last year to a new low under 23, it is still above its historical average of around 20. Eight years ago, after 9/11, it spiked to just over 40. Recently, stocks have reached new highs for the year, so a move down in the VIX is certainly reasonable. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...would be very hard to move into these countries without Cadbury or Nestlé or somebody else [who is already there]," says Marcia Mogelonsky, a senior analyst at Mintel International Group, a market-research company...
...known that Mr. Kane rose to prominence in Yale's registrar's office by spearheading its transition to the then-unknown "interweb," we would have been able to predict the inevitable disappearance of the Tolstoy-sized course catalog that we've enjoyed for so long. Kane piloted a move to online course selection at Yale before doing the same at Harvard...
...tactic of busing poor African-American voters from the projects is no longer viable, even if there were a machine dedicated to it. The projects have been bulldozed or turned into mixed-income developments over the past two decades, Meanwhile, Atlanta's black mayors encouraged affluent whites to move into blighted or vacant areas of the city, and the real estate boom of the 1990s made it happen. In the past decade, Atlanta has elected whites to a number of city-wide offices, including the council president before Borders...