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...this what a bubble looks like? Despite the global economic slowdown, the U.K. property market has been setting land-speed records this year. In April, the largest-ever monthly increase pushed the price of the average British home to ?100,000, according to the Nationwide Building Society. That's over 16% higher than a year ago. And to help pay for these high-priced properties, Britons have also been piling on staggering amounts of debt, at a recent net rate of ?7 billion a month. They owe back at least 117% of their annual incomes, more than they did during...
Officials at each of the schools say the economic slowdown has forced them to reevaluate programs...
Brainer says she also faults the economic slowdown for some of the delay in selling the One Brattle Square property...
...economy positively roared out of the 2002 gate, racking up 5.8 percent GDP growth in the first quarter and pleasantly surprising just about everybody when the Commerce Department announced the results Friday. The GDP number is the best since the last quarter of 1999, and the slowdown of 2001 - recession, not a recession, it's academic - has now certainly gone down as the shortest in history...
...energy is the one sector that no one else wants to see go up right now. Higher fuel prices are bad for the exact businesses that are still recovering from Sept. 11 - namely airlines, transportation, tourism and travel, not to mention the slowdown's long-time whipping boy, manufacturing. And if economists have said it once, they've said it a million times - all that adds up to a virtual tax hike on consumers, upon whose open wallets this nascent recovery depends...