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What do you make of the global financial crisis more broadly? Do you think there's still another shoe to drop...
...Main Street's Pullback For millions of Americans, the prospect of living within their means is a meaner one by the day. And it has consequences that are already showing in the bankruptcies of retailers such as Linens 'n Things, Mervyns, Steve & Barry's, Shoe Pavilion, Goody's and Sharper Image and in the possibility of poor holiday sales. The overleveraged consumer is the biggest economic problem the country faces, because debt has been the rocket fuel that has propelled growth for most of the past decade. Two-thirds of the $14 trillion U.S. economy is driven by consumer spending...
...convince them there's a problem," he says. "You've got to start with the data." Collecting and analyzing data from the state's 62 counties would have been costly, so the task force went to RealtyTrac. New York was hardly alone. "RealtyTrac does the shoe leather," says Israel Klein, deputy staff director for Congress's Joint Economic Committee, which shepherded July's federal housing legislation. "When we want to try to get a picture of what communities are hit hardest, their data is very helpful...
This Cinderella wears a satin pointe shoe adorned with crystals, and it’s Kudelka’s most brilliant contribution—though the image is spoiled as she is stripped of it and her clothes, to be revealed barefoot and in a silk slip, surrounded by an army of pumpkin-heads...
Peace and prosperity. During the last decade of the 20th century, Americans enjoyed more of both than any other people in history. Not all Americans, but most. Certainly most voters. Then came 9/11, and out went secure peace, but we still had prosperity. And then last month, the other shoe dropped. Now both peace and prosperity seem uncertain. When we were riding high, we called it "business as usual" and found it intolerable. Politicians of every stripe promised to rescue us with a magic elixir: "change." Well, now we have change. Kind of makes you miss that old business...