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...semi-retirement, his ears are still one of the most famous cultural icons of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has posed for photographs with every U.S. President since Harry Truman, save one (Lyndon Johnson never visited a Disney theme park). Disney claims that Mickey had a 98% awareness rate among children between ages 3-11 worldwide. Mouse-related merchandise sales have declined from their 1997 high, but they still make up about 40% of the company's consumer products revenue. Mickey returned to the big screen for a cameo in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Warner Brothers' Bugs...
...economists and analysts worry that the dearth of consumer confidence, despite a low unemployment rate of about 4%, could weigh heavily in the long run. "A negative view of the world is more ingrained here," says Schuster. "People are more prepared to think that this downturn will last." Shirakawa says the mind-set of the Japanese public, which he calls structural pessimism, is, "Oh, it's a recession again" - a sentiment learned from the trials and tribulations faced during the Lost Decade. There is no easy solution to this endemic lack of confidence, he says; it requires different policy solutions...
...official. On Nov. 17, Japan's government declared that the second largest economy in the world had slipped into recession for the first time since 2001. The Cabinet office of Prime Minister Taro Aso said that gross domestic product had contracted at an annual rate of 0.4% in the three months up to September, its second consecutive quarter of negative growth...
...said, "Japan is in a very serious situation." Last month, as the nation's export-driven economy watched global demand slow down, Japan's Nikkei index fell to a 26-year low. Couple this with the appreciation of the yen - which some economists say could strengthen to an exchange rate of 80 to the dollar by the end of next year - and it's little wonder that corporate powerhouses like Toyota, Honda and Sony have seen profits dive. Royal Bank of Scotland Japan chief economist Junko Nishioka says that over the past two months, she has grown increasingly pessimistic...
...significant upsurge in investment per worker, the aging boomers' reduced levels of working and spending will slow the real growth of the U.S. GDP from an average of 3.2% a year since 1965 to about 2.4% over the next three decades," says the MGI report. That growth rate is 25% lower than the one we've been accustomed...