Permanent Recession as the New Normal

Is Permanent Recession the New Normal? American Thinker By James G. Wiles You have to be around 90 to even remember an economy like this. The United States has not experienced two straight years of 9% unemployment since before the Second World War. As Amity Shales wrote in The Forgotten Man, ... See all stories on this topic » The New Normal in Immigration Policy? Alabama Passes Stricter Regulations The Takeaway This Alabama law is likely to be challenged immediately by a lawsuit from civil rights groups. Alabama has become the latest state to enact very strict new immigration policy. The new law, signed by Governor Robert Bentley, is said to be the most ... See all stories on this topic »

East Coast Heat Wave Preview Of New Normal Firedoglake Unsurprisingly, the group found (among other things) the following: The Stanford study's lead author, Noah Diffenbaugh, sought to determine when the current hottest temperatures would become “thenew normal.” He says, “According to our projections, ... See all stories on this topic »

Still waiting for the new normal Orlando Business Journal This past week, on the heels of disappointing jobs data and an increase in the national unemployment rate, President Barack Obama, a World Bank chief economist and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke all rushed to reassure us a double-dip recession ... See all stories on this topic »

High input price is new normal FMCG cos Moneycontrol.com Consumer products companies have accepted the unabated commodity cost inflation as the new normal, reports The Times of India. Companies like Hindustan Unilever (HUL) and Marico are working on strategies to remain calibrated on product pricing. ... See all stories on this topic »

Climate change forces farming rethink News24 It's the new normal they must prepare for. Bragg's farm in New South Wales state has been in the family for generations and has weather records for the area stretching back 110 years. After seven years of costly drought, the weather switched last year ... See all stories on this topic »

AIPC Annual Conference "All About Change" Focus on Travel News The conference is themed around the concept "It's All About Change" as a reflection of the realization by centre managers everywhere that continuous change has become the new normal for facility operations. "We're living in a time when constant change ... See all stories on this topic »

Retirement Age? For Many, It'll Be 80 Smartmoney.com And the new normal isn't that people are working past age 65, rather it's this: They are also hunting for second jobs as all, according to Art Koff, founder of RetiredBrains.com. "Even those older Americans who are still working are looking for ways to ... See all stories on this topic »

City encourages sandbagging volunteers to keep coming KTIV Seeing all those volunteers in the parking lot of the Long Lines Family Rec Center day after day has become the new normal, but they're still responding to an urgent need. "We've been going strong the last ten days. We continue to go on for another ten ... See all stories on this topic »

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