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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...labors under the globe's highest level of public debt--140% of GDP. Across the nation, bankruptcies and unemployment are soaring. Practically everything else--stock values, consumer prices, confidence--is in free fall. The biggest crisis of all is the yen. With the Bank of Japan printing money to offset a liquidity crisis, the currency is sliding fast. It hit 134 to the dollar last week, a 15% decline since a year ago. The decline has prompted cries of foul from U.S. manufacturers over the competitive edge a weak currency gives Japanese products. But an equal concern is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time For Hardball? | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

Since the schools’ dining facilities have to compete with the restaurants in Harvard Square for diners, Upson says raising prices to offset the coming salary hikes would be “self-defeating...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Grapples With New Wage Mandates | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

...price as a form of income. But that’s exactly what some of these shell companies were designed to do. As the report states, the transactions were just “transfers of economic risk from one Enron pocket to another, apparently to create income that would offset [losses] on Enron’s income statement...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Harvard's Enron Investigation | 2/5/2002 | See Source »

...billion in the red for 2004. The Pentagon gets big bucks: a $48 billion increase to fight the war on terrorism, and homeland defense would double to about $38 billion. Bush also wants $675 billion in additional tax cuts over the next ten years. To offset the spending, Bush wants to cut nearly two dozen job training programs. The Justice Department Budget would be cut and the budgets at the Agriculture, Commerce and Interior departments would be frozen. Spending increases in education and environment would be slowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Enronizing' Capitol Hill | 2/5/2002 | See Source »

Higher labor costs at Haier's Camden plant are partially offset by savings in shipping and logistics charges. Materials costs are similar to those in China. And the plant can deliver a just-in-time shipment to U.S. retailers and distributors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Trade: Look Out, Whirlpool | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

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