Word: recessional
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Starbucks started to get in trouble three years ago when its now-departed CEO said that the chain would eventually have 40,000 locations worldwide. It was an arrogant prediction given that Starbucks was not even half way there. Investors and customers saw that the firm's plans were grandiose...
It is the Fed's way of saying, in terms that are hardly subtle, that if its programs to improve the credit markets, the Treasury's plans to help banks and the auto companies, and the Administration's budget and stimulus package works, then the American economy will walk away...
The vanity of the Fed, the Treasury, and those building the budget in Congress and the Administration is not that they refuse to doubt that the fruits of their work will remake the economy; It is that they will not admit that the economy has even the smallest chance of...
Is your boss a bully who needs to feel important and boosts his ego by withholding important information from you? Or maybe you work with someone who is so fearful of argument or criticism that problems go unsolved because she won't discuss them. And then there's that guy...
The name hasn't really caught on, but the meat certainly has. In the past three years, Australian sales of kangaroo have increased 30% as it has gained more cred as a healthy and free-range alternative to lamb and beef. Now, with a recession in full swing, the relatively...