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Hollywood has covered almost every topic on earth,literally. From personal issues to national and international disasters.
Thats why I think one and a half year is a...
made popular Oct 4 2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says his country’s economy is improving rapidly.
Putin said Friday that Russia “has managed to overcome the recession...
made popular Sep 18 2010
The withering recession pushed the number of Americans who are living in poverty to a 51-year high in 2009 and left a record 50.7 million people without health...
made popular Sep 17 2010
A tenet of criminology is that when times are tough, so are criminals. In the midst of the longest recession in an era, you expect crime rates to spike. (A D.C....
made popular Sep 16 2010
Britain faces a ’significant’ risk of sliding back into recession, a key policymaker at the Bank of England revealed today.
Warning that the central...
made popular Aug 24 2010
It’s President Hugo Chavez’s biggest economic battle cry, and it’s getting louder as Venezuela suffers a recession: “We’re going to bury...
made popular Jul 20 2010
Smoking bans and recession are stubbing out Cuba’s cigar industry, signalling a hostile era for a product whose mystique once captivated the likes of Winston...
made popular Jun 23 2010
FINLAND’S economy has fallen back into recession during the first three months of this year despite a recovery in its export trade.
During the January to March...
made popular Jun 11 2010
Voters in this famously tax-averse state Tuesday night approved a temporary hike in the sales tax to stave off brutal budget cuts, handing Gov. Jan Brewer a crucial...
made popular May 19 2010
Recently released figures show New Zealand’s unemployment rate fell from more than 7 per cent to 6 per cent in the March quarter. The drop defied the expectations...
made popular May 10 2010
Britain is emerging from the recession with one of the weakest economies in the industrialised world as a direct result of Gordon Brown’s spending binges,...
made popular Apr 19 2010
According to a new report the value of wages in New Zealand will decline 0.5 per cent in the next 12 months as inflation exceeds salary growth. While wages are expected...
made popular Mar 25 2010
Telecom equipment vendor Nokia Siemens Networks aims to cut around 450 jobs in Finland as part of previously announced restructuring measures, press spokesman Ben Roome...
made popular Mar 5 2010
The government statistics office says Finland’s economy has contracted shrank a record 7.8 percent last year.
The recession has severely hit the small Nordic...
made popular Mar 2 2010
The number of Americans who use the Internet has surged through the heart of the Great Recession over the past two years, with older adults, women, minority groups and...
made popular Feb 20 2010
Statistics Finland said on Tuesday that the country’s unemployment rate stood at 8.2% by end-2009, well over the 6.4% rate recorded a year ago.
The jobless rate...
made popular Feb 16 2010
Reflecting the rising status of China in the global economy, the nation’s applications for patents has risen by 210% since 2005. China has surpassed France to...
made popular Feb 11 2010
The global recession, naturally, had an adverse affect on the Tunisian economy. Reduced consumption in Europe undermined export-heavy industries in Tunisia for which...
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“Am I to be blamed for the recession?” This must be the question raging in the minds of many unemployed educated youth here in India. This is the situation in...
made popular Dec 30 2009
The Sun Belt states that grew like fertilized weeds during the real estate boom are now experiencing sharp declines in population growth, the Census Bureau said...
made popular Dec 24 2009
Talking about the efficiency of the Brazilian economy president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said during the 32nd Meeting of the Full Council of Economic and Social...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan Chase and an...
made popular Dec 2 2009
Each day at five, staff members of the Humane Society of Elkhart County close the animal shelter and hold a meeting. And each day, like clockwork, they begin hearing a...
made popular Nov 25 2009
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday vowed to continue Russia’s anti-crisis program as the economy moves out of one of the deepest recessions in post-Soviet...
made popular Nov 21 2009
During the housing boom, Henry County, a suburb of Atlanta, had its share of racial tension as more and more blacks joined the tens of thousands of others pouring in,...
made popular Nov 17 2009
During the best of the times, Miguel Salcedo’s son, an illegal immigrant in San Diego, would be sending home hundreds of dollars a month to support his struggling...
made popular Nov 17 2009
The eurozone escaped recession in the third quarter, with Germany’s recovery gaining strength, but the rebound was less dramatic than expected and less strong...
made popular Nov 14 2009
The global recession isn’t just making jobs scarce and tightening spending — it’s also turning more people into thieves. According to an annual survey...
made popular Nov 12 2009
With the global recession making consumers and businesses more price-conscious, China is grabbing market share from its export competitors, solidifying a dominance in...
made popular Oct 14 2009
Cuba’s workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn’t get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are...
made popular Oct 14 2009
The slumping global economy is having a stimulus effect on Costa Rica’s famous sex-tourism industry, as a growing number of unemployed women — from Colombia...
made popular Oct 14 2009
But one number is looking up: Births through mid-August at Reykjavik’s biggest hospital, which delivers 70% of Iceland’s babies, rose 3.5% over the same...
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As part of the Huffington Post’s efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we’re rounding up some of...
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Economic crisis has wider impact than one can think of. Everyone takes it as a bane but it’s a boon too, though fewer the cases may be. Recession has led to the fall...
made popular Sep 29 2009
If the sidewalks seem less clogged with Bugaboo strollers these days and you can’t remember the last time you had to diaper a doll at a baby shower, it’s...
made popular Sep 25 2009
As world leaders converge in Pittsburgh for a major economic summit this week, one of the biggest questions they face is this: How do you begin to replace the millions...
made popular Sep 25 2009
The last depression the U.S. went through was in 1930’s, and it was part of huge global downturn.
From a Market update newsletter from Sprott Asset Management,...
made popular Sep 22 2009
Brazil has come out of recession after its economy grew in the April-to-June quarter.
The largest economy in Latin America expanded by 1.9% in the second quarter from...
made popular Sep 12 2009
Kraft made its initial proposal on 28 August after a meeting earlier that day between Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft chairman and chief executive, and Roger Carr, chairman of...
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In this photo taken Wednesday, April 1, 2009, Jerry Miller, 74, of Conrad, Iowa, makes a delivery at an area pharmacy in Nevada, Iowa.
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