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...terms of length, this recession already looks likely to break the postwar record of 16 months set in 1973-75 and equaled in 1981-82. The NBER has deemed December 2007 the start date (because that's when employment peaked), and it's very hard to find anybody willing to predict that the economy will resume growing by May. As for severity, though the first eight months of the recession were quite mild, the pace of job losses since August is beginning to rival that of the big 1970s and '80s recessions. So while President-elect Barack Obama and others...
...after describing the economic conditions of the Great Depression, asked respondents if a return to such misery was likely. Almost 60% said yes. And perhaps one of these months, be it in 2009 or 2010, these people might just be pleasantly surprised by the economy's performance - and start buying stuff again...
...course, we've been through this before. The price of oil shoots up; we start using less; reduced demand sends the price down; we start using more; pretty soon it's shooting up again. This time, though, it does feel different. It seems as if Americans have made a real and fundamental commitment to consuming less energy. That is not so much out of idealism as it is the good side, for a change, of our short attention span. When the price of gasoline shot past $4 per gal., it was both shocking and reassuring. Economists had long wondered what...
...magnitude of this difference becomes even more evident in the current economic climate—the Boston Municipal Research Bureau predicted that Boston could start off the next fiscal year—which begins in July—with an $85 million budget shortfall...
...give back,” and he favors the lower income tax rates implemented by a supply-side economics model. Religion Fear God: Messianism and Mortality Primary source: Tha Carter III Prospectus: Is Weezy God or man? “Young God in the buildin’ / Bout to start a religion,” he proclaims. Yet he’s also painfully conscious of corporeality: “Two more inches I’da been in that casket / According to the doctor I could of died in traffic.” This paradox?...