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One of the hallmarks of this recession is that even healthy companies are willing to cut costs and cut them…
Changewave, the research firm, is out with its survey of 3,029 business people. Some highlights: "More than half of respondents…
Today was supposed to be all about the employment and jobs data. The data is out and it isn’t pretty. …
Big companies lost 30,000 jobs yesterday. Those are the public companies which had to come clean. Who knows how many…
People still keep Confederate Dollars. They have not been worth anything since 1864, but they are a nice collectors item…
The Business Roundtable CEO Economic Outlook Index shows much more caution than optimism. This reflects expected sales, capital expenditures and…
The weekly jobless claims just came out at a drop of 21,000 to 509,000. Economists were looking for a roughly…
The damage of the recession is beginning to move from the financial sector to other parts of the economy. According…
There are a lot of pieces of data about what is happening to the economy, perhaps too many to make…
All districts showed weakness… weakening labor, weak exports, weak housing, commercial real estate declines, lower housing prices, weak retail, mining…
The wonderful and extraordinary thing about big federal spending programs is that the government does not have enough people to…
Gradualism may end up being the failing global economy’s worst enemy. Many analysts don’t think that the Paulson plan’s $700…
As if you did not notice, the US economy is in a recession. We have been maintaining that for just…
The ISM Manufacturing report was as dismal as one could expect and definitely well into the recession levels for those…
The UN’s report on World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009 contains almost no good news. According to Reuters, "World economic…
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