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...Less-leveraged business, in fact. The irony is that in the deleveraged society the U.S. is in the process of becoming, it's the careful consumer who may ultimately bail out the economy. Ashworth believes the U.S. savings rate will rise to 5% of GDP over the next two to three years. "We're going to save more and spend less, because now we don't have a choice," he says. That increase in savings, he figures, will amount to some $1 trillion - about the projected size of next year's deficit...
Oxford Economics, which advises the British government, expects 110,000 jobs to be cut in London between this year and 2010--although if the credit crunch is protracted, that number could rise to almost 150,000 next year alone. Real estate is already reeling. Plans for two huge new skyscrapers in the City have been shelved, and the price of prime houses in central London has dropped 12% so far in 2008, according to the real estate firm Savills, while sales volume is down 50% in some areas like Clapham and Fulham...
...Chicago Graduate School of Business economist Gary Becker. "But you won't see a pandemic." Census Bureau figures show that over the past 2 1/2 decades, recessions have had only minor effects on divorce rates, which have been slowly waning since the early '80s after 20 years of steadily rising. Those trajectories have been influenced more by the rise of the women's movement and women's earning power, lower fertility and changes in divorce laws than by dour Dows. The only recorded spike in divorces in the past 75 years came right after World...
...make money is to get involved in the IPOs. They are basically free. If you are not lucky enough to get those, look for the athletes with fewer shares in the market. Their prices are more likely to rise as more people try to get some of those shares...
...Islamic Turks over the direction of their country. The result of this case and any cases that follow could very well dictate the long-term direction of the Turkish state. With a large military and ambition to join the European Union, a rebound and triumph of secularism, or the rise of an increasingly Islamic agenda could have ramifications extending across Europe and even back home to the United States, where the political discourse revolves around anti-Islamic name-calling. With our election at hand, Americans should look to Turkey. We need to realize that when these campaigns end, we must...