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In 1982 it was a war in the South Atlantic. In 2009 it has been moats, manure and the flipping of houses. Different mechanism, same outcome: the economy has been taken off the front pages.
Unlike the liberation of the Falklands, this is not...
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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 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
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
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...
made popular Sep 30 2009
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...
made popular Sep 30 2009
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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For one answer to the nation’s most pressing economic question — when will the recession end? — just take a peek inside the American man’s...
made popular Sep 2 2009
The global effects of recession have resulted to numerous setbacks worldwide. Conflicts among nations, particularly the war against terrorism, worsen the situation....
made popular Aug 27 2009
They began to pull away from everyone else in the 1970s. By 2006, income was more concentrated at the top than it had been since the late 1920s. The recent news about...
made popular Aug 21 2009
The finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, told his compatriots to hang up their hopes for a speedy recovery on Monday, predicting South Africa’s recession would be deeper...
made popular Aug 20 2009
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In a battle to combat recession, the banks of the United Kingdom have reduced interest rate to 1 percent creating a historic record ever since their services. This cut...
made popular Mar 18 2009
Alistair Darling is standing by his UK growth forecasts for 2008, despite signs that a crippling downturn could be around the corner for the global economy.
Even...
made popular Apr 9 2008
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