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...Holiday shopping is crucial for retailers because it accounts for as much as 40% of their annual sales. But consumer confidence has plummeted as Americans get squeezed by a housing crisis, rising unemployment rates, high food and gas prices, and a stock-market meltdown. Nine in 10 consumers believe the economy is in a recession, according to the most recent report of the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers. The barrage of bad news surrounding the $700 billion congressional bailout appears to have had a significant effect on shoppers' outlooks. At the end of September, 79% of consumers said they...
...number of economic signals suggest as much. Market volatility indices are way up. In addition to economic stagnation reflected in nine consecutive months of job losses, retail sector struggles and a suffering automotive industry, the market is fretting about potential disasters yet to come in the banking arena. European banks appear increasingly unstable, and doubts remain about American insurance companies and financial institutions stuck with dubious debt obligations...
...insight. It is unpopular to say that the U.S. economy is resilient when firms are failing, but what story is told by the facts? Unemployment now exceeds 6 percent in the United States but it declined by 159,000 in September. In France, for example, the unemployment rate was nine percent (or more) in nine out of the last 12 years. As the U.S. outlook worsens, it is worth remembering how other, comparable countries are performing...
...Lambert, a native of Cumberland, Maine, has been sailing since the age of nine. “My dad kind of forced me because he loves to sail, and I hated it at first,” she said. “But now I love...
...Embassy building in Beijing, which opened in August, was reportedly built entirely by American workers using American supplies. It's unclear such measures will have to be resorted to in London, where the U.S. still prides itself on maintaining a Special Relationship. But it will take many years before Nine Elms resounds with quite the prestige of Grosvenor Square; indeed, maybe it never will...