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...office's front window taunted him every time he walked by. On his way out Monday, it was at 12,171, its lowest point since the mid-1980s. By 9:30 a.m. Tuesday: 11,710. On Thursday on his way to lunch: 11,800. "We're in a vicious spiral now," Suzuki says...
...three seats in Queensland compared with 11 in the previous election. Using Australia's preferential voting system to best effect, One Nation played a key part in humiliating the Liberal-National coalition in the Queensland and Western Australia elections. True, John Howard's coalition has been on a downward spiral federally, but divisions in the opposition ranks made Labor's win more emphatic. Hanson helped deliver victory to the Labor Party in Queensland by a stunning margin. One Nation won a few seats in depressed, conservative rural areas that had lost faith in the National Party but were not ready...
Last week government officials finally admitted what everyone else has known for a long time: Japan is in a deflationary spiral. This is where it gets dangerous. Companies aren't investing, so they don't expand, so unemployment rises, so people put off spending, so prices decline, so people save their money because they figure things will cost less in three months or a year than they...
...Classic. My mind had leaped in the space of a nanosecond from a waiting room in Logan Airport to a death spiral over the Atlantic. Dr. Curtis Hsia of Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders calls this automatic thinking. It was even worse a few hours earlier when, as part of my treatment for a debilitating case of aviophobia (fear of flying), Dr. Hsia had booked me on Exposure Airlines. It's the newest thing in phobic therapy: a virtual airplane of hardware, software and fancy head-mounted display screens that feels like the real thing...
What sweet irony. Even as the new economy-loaded NASDAQ index continued its death spiral last week, investors gobbled up shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts as if cholesterol were a newfound health food. And while the tech gang was frantically dialing down its earnings estimates, Krispy Kreme announced profits that easily beat the forecasts.The stock soared to $79.19, up $6.68 in an otherwise dreadful week...