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...When compiling the "worst case" for stress-testing American banks last winter, policymakers figured the most chilling scenario for unemployment in 2009 was 8.9% - a figure we breezed past in May. From December 2007 to August 2009, the economy jettisoned nearly 7 million jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's a 5% decrease in the total number of jobs, a drop that hasn't occurred since the end of World War II. The number of long-term unemployed, people who have been out of work for more than 27 weeks, was the highest since the BLS began...
...Slow Money Alliance, set up as a nonprofit, brings the tenets of the Slow Food movement (buying local) to finance - exploring investment vehicles that re-circulate within the local economy, minimize environmental impact, stress diversity over monoculture, and earn decent returns. Tasch wants to give investors a stake in "restorative economy," building the food and ecological infrastructure on a community to community basis. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...Warren asked whether the government has plans to rerun the stress tests. With unemployment already at the level the government called "worst case" just a few months ago, Warren said she thought it time to look at bank strength again, assuming even higher levels of unemployment. Geithner replied that the Stress Tests were stringent enough...
...illness, but if the trials' final data confirm that one dose of vaccine is sufficient, it could mean that twice as many people as expected could be immunized in mid-October, when the U.S. government intends to make available the first batch of 45 million doses. The Australian researchers stress that while their results are encouraging, they are also incomplete; they have not compared the response in these vaccinated volunteers to a group of unimmunized controls, so it's still too early to decide whether it's safe to do away with the second inoculation...
While Holocaust survivors are often traumatized for life as a result of the horrors they have endured, it is a well-known fact that their children and even their grandchildren also frequently suffer bouts of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression. Denial of the Holocaust can trigger such terrible episodes in those who must deal with its memory on a daily basis. Tuesday’s advertisement, though the result of a mistake, was inappropriate for its potential to reopen the wounds of the past for the victims of the present...