New Normal and gas prices

Gas prices force many to change their ways Indianapolis Star "It's like this is the new normal," says Demon Nelson, Southfield, Mich., after paying $4.15 a gallon to fill up his Chevrolet Impala. Nationally, regular gasoline averaged $3.91 a gallon Friday, 7 cents less than the 2011 high of $3.98 a week earlier. ...

Guest column: Price volatility is here to stay Financial Times They are the new normal. Changes in both supply and demand dynamics are likely to create a long period of sustained commodity price volatility, with significant downstream implications for many businesses. There are a number of structural reasons for ...

InterviewEconomy entering 'New Normal' of lower growth - with video ICIS (subscription) By Will Beacham LONDON (ICIS)--The volatility in chemical and oil markets indicates that the global economy is going through a structural change and entering the 'New Normal' of lower growth in mature markets, according to a leading consultant. ...

Numbers Can Be Deceiving Twice Amazingly this year's Top 100 CE Retailers rankings, which track the prior year's annual sales, show that about two and a half years into the “new normal” economy CE sales grew 5.8 percent at retail during 2010. More than a few of you – retailers, ...

Michael Jackson's children put on their smartest clothes for weekly worship ... Daily Mail By Jody Thompson Their grandparents have always been strictly religious - and it seems that Michael Jackson's children are now having to go to church on Sundays as part of their new 'normal' life. Paris 13, Prince, 14 and Blanket, nine, ...

Being Frugal May Be More Genetic Than Learned Miller-McCune.com But recent consumer spending figures seem to contradict that argument, and nowadays, few retailers are losing sleep over the “new normal” nightmare. Holiday sales in December surged from a year earlier, surprising most analysts, and in the last quarter ...

Time for a 'courageous conversation' in Pittsburgh thejewishchronicle.net After all, the reasoning goes, when reality gives way to a new normal, one cannot afford to shy away from talking about matters of ultimate import and significance. Certainly, we have reached such a time in Pittsburgh. ...

The New Normal | Craigslist Foundation By Aimee Allison But the new normal doesn't have to be a time of decay and decline. Instead, we can allow the storm to transform our communities, our work and ourselves. Albert Einstein once said, “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ... Craigslist Foundation - http://craigslistfoundation.org/

Boom, Gloom and the New Normal published today (Chemicals & The ... By Paul Hodges Today, the blog is proud to publish the first Chapter of its new eBook: 'Boom, Gloom and the New Normal: how Western BabyBoomers are changing global chemical demand patterns, again' It is co-authored with ICIS' John Richardson of Asian ... Chemicals & The Economy - http://www.icis.com/blogs/chemicals-and-the-economy/

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