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...Dollar Tree moving too fast? If there's one lesson from the great retail shakeout of the past year, it's that America has too many stores. Yet Dollar Tree plans to open about 80 more stores by end of year, and foresees growing to between 5,000 and 7,000 stores down the road. But will an extreme discounter like Dollar Tree suffer when the economic winds move against you? "I do think Dollar Tree is a beneficiary of people trading down," says Laura Champine, an analyst at Cowen & Co. "When the economy recovers, I believe its growth will...
...normal part of any recession. As demand shrinks, so must production. But now that the recession is easing, there is considerable debate among economists about whether manufacturers will be rehiring workers and restarting assembly lines anytime soon. Despite aggressive downsizing by industries like auto manufacturing over the past 18 months, there are fears that the world remains stuck with so much excess production capacity that any recovery will be anemic, plagued by deflationary pressures, high unemployment and ailing bank-loan portfolios. "Unless we deal with the excess capacity situation, we will have a protracted crisis that will continue to wreak...
...China economist, Qu Hongbin, worries that his country is full of manufacturers trying to hang on while waiting for overseas demand to recover. "There still is hope that we'll go back to the old days," Qu says. But "demand in the future will be lower than in the past," he says. "That means the factory owners have to face reality" - the reality of them no longer cranking out ever more widgets in a widget-weary world...
...Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission and appearing before the Senate - and being told on at least one occasion by DOJ officials that they were not looking to prosecute him - Birkenfeld was arrested in June 2008 as he returned from Switzerland, where he had been living for the past 13 years, to his native Boston for a high school reunion...
...Hispanic Center released a study of first-, second- and third-generation Hispanics in the U.S. - a look at how the Latin-American population has grown and assimilated over the past three decades. As recently as 1980, just 9% of U.S. kids under 18 were Hispanic, compared with 22% today. Only about a tenth of that population are first-generation Latin Americans - meaning they were born outside the U.S. More than half (52%) are second generation - born in the U.S. to at least one foreign-born parent; and 37% were born in America to American-born parents. By 2025, the study...