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Nasty the new normal for markets
Globe and Mail
Of course, you can live the life of the stressed investor until such time as the stock markets settle down. Just remember that for now, nasty is the new normal. Protesters demonstrate outside the New York Stock Exchange on Sept . 21 , 2011 . -
The blueprint for the perfect pension system
Financial News
Pensions industry folk are gathering in Oxford today to discuss how to manage people's retirement funds in a "New Normal" world. This provides the perfect opportunity to ask - who has the best pension system in the world and what can the UK learn from ...
Dispatches From the Third Front: Day 1–The Hero
TIME (blog)
BAMC, as the soldiers call it, is one of the centers of the wars' third front, a small city designed to repair those whom the wars have broken, and dispatch them to the next part of their lives, what they call, "The New Normal...
On the brink of government shutdown -- again
Marketplace
Businesses worry this might be the new normal. The US Capitol dome is seen behind a temporary fence in Washington, DC (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images) Bob Moon: Don't bother stopping me, 'cause I know we've heard this one before: Congress is ...
Tesco to spend £500m on price cuts
Financial Times
“Today is the new normal. Customers are challenged. They have got to make ends meet,” he said. Asda, which has pledged to be 10 per cent cheaper than rivals or refund the difference, said it was underwhelmed, and vowed not be beaten on price. ...
Sexual assault support group starting
Mail Tribune
A new topic, such as "Managing the Effects of Trauma," "Discovering the New 'Normal,'" "Re-building Trust," will be introduced each week. Classes will include incorporating a new skill or activity, such as breathing exercises, art, music, movement, ...
Recession changes the American way of life
USA Today
"I'm more pessimistic that this is the new normal." The Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey sent detailed annual questionnaires to 4.4 million people and was conducted separately from the 2010 Census. •Marrying later. ...
Flint's homicide problem continues in 2011 (with map)
The Flint Journal - MLive.com
Is the high rate of kiling the “new normal?” Mayor Dayne Walling said he refuses to believe it. “Every homicide is a tragic loss of life and a mark against our community,” Walling said in an email to the Flint Journal. “We are all outraged by the ...
TOWN SQUARE BLOG: Soup is good food; living low budget
The Mercury
I am deeply weary of the “new normal” and the strain it has put on HSBC's ability to undertake its mission. As the person who asks for the money we need, I cringe at having to constantly thank our donors on one hand for coming through better than ever ...
Americans delay marriage because of hard times
AHN | All Headline News
The prolonged pessimism has led many Americans to consider their downgraded lifestyle as thenew normal and recession a way of life. Thus, couples have postponed marrying, causing the median age for a first marriage to go up to 28.7 for males and 26.7 ...
The Seacoast bids a fond farewell to Chris Elliott
Seacoastonline.com
In LA the land of nuts and honey it will be the new normal." The multi-talented artist has worked his stand-up comedy pretty hard in regional venues, notably his "Pottymouth" routine, which features Elliott the "guitarist, vocalist and pornographer. ...
Holiday shopping season expected to decline
AMERICAblog (blog)
With the over-emphasis on budget cutting rather than jobs creation, this is going to be the new normal. Stupidity is certain in style these days in Washington. A new forecast indicates that sales will likely not be as high as last year and that ...
Actions speak louder than words
Vancouver Sun
In our new normal world - described by the co-chief investment officer of the PIMCO investment company as a "decade of middling economic growth, relatively high unemployment and meagre stock market returns" - one would think we would embrace job ...
Historically Black Colleges Challenged To Boost Their Competitiveness
Diverse: Issues in Higher Educatio
In his speech, Duncan lauded HBCU leaders for being examples of “how to do more with less” but also encouraged the HBCU leaders to adapt to a “new normal” of increased accountability and fewer resources. “College leaders are being held accountable for ...
Rich kids pushed to pay bigger share for college
Reuters Blogs (blog)
The new normal is thanks to a confluence of factors: Parents' withering portfolios, relentless tuition increases, and the belief that well-heeled offspring should absorb real lessons about personal finance and responsibility. With some skin in the game ...
Poverty rate in county hits 30-year high
SignOnSanDiego.com
“The new normal is reduced income,” said Murtaza Baxamusa, director of planning and development at the Family Housing Corporation in National City. Melinda Opperman, senior vice president for Springboard, a consumer credit counseling agency, ...
Discover Financial Services,'s CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call ...
Seeking Alpha
But to a large degree, I feel like marketing intensity pricing has returned to what I think it's likely to be a new normal. It was very depressed for several years. I'd think it's unlikely that marketing will go back to the levels we saw in the ...
Census: Economic freefall slows, but recovery still far off
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
"Our new normal is equal demand and less funds," said Rose Chapman, who runs Jewish Family and Children's Services of Sarasota-Manatee. After a lifetime in the construction industry, Sarasota resident Rodney Miller, 49, was laid off from his concrete ...
University challenge of freshers' week
Herald Scotland
For a state school girl up from rural Dorset and the first girl in my family to go to university, it felt like a chance to reinvent myself, to create a new normal. But that was hampered by the nagging suspicion that I was a fraud, who didn't belong ...
US stocks plunge amid widespread fears of second recession
The Guardian
He said the Fed's comments and China's slowdown had made nervous investor even more anxious. "Judging from people I have spoken to, volatility is the new normal. This may be what we are in for for the foreseeable future," he said. ...
In the Texas Panhandle, one county finds more than half its water use goes to ...
The American Independent
“This is the new normal.” In response, Guthrie's is one of a few Panhandle districts that are preparing rules that will require oil and gas producers to report their water use from exempt wells. Guthrie and her two-person staff may not be able to ...
US Tsy's Geithner:EU Leaders To Act w/More Force In Coming Wks
MNI News
Geithner also said he does not believe the current slow pace of the economic growth -- coupled with the slow pace of job creation -- is the "new normal," arguing that with sensible policies the country and return to the high growth, low unemployment ...
FDI to be game changer for Indian retail: Kishore Biyani
India Infoline.com
... (iii) Customer habits are changing driven by increasingly narrow upgraded cycles; (iv) volatility is the new normal in the Indian retail landscape; and (v) the industry structure is going to see more fragmentation before consolidation. ...
FACTS Management Company Aligns With CathoNet to Improve Efficiency, Financial ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Our CathoNet/FACTS alliance is part of the 'new normal' that is sweeping the Catholic Church in our country," said Deacon William Koniers, President of CathoNet, a Right Networks Group company based in Hudson, NH "Clergy and laity must be encouraged ...
How to play the Canadian dollar
Globe and Mail
Here's the link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/rob-carrick/nasty-the-new-normal-for-markets/article2176072/ Wild day of Risk off trading leading to big US dollar rally. 2:59 Darcy Keith - Andrew, just to start off, ...
Unemployment, housing crisis could bring down consumer confidence
WSOC Charlotte
Still, Bowen expects the sluggish economy to drag on, with volatility and uncertainty the new normal. “Week before last, the stock market was way up. This week the stock market is way down. Next week, who knows?” he said. ...
Hell on the horizon
Pasadena Weekly
Gary McManus, the associate state climatologist for Oklahoma, was recently quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying, “I think it would be a mistake to not think that this has become the new normal. Until it stops happening, we should expect it to ...
Typhoon Roke further ravages Japan, still reeling from tsunami
Globe and Mail
Meanwhile, ordinary Japanese citizens have adjusted to a new normal, stepping up efforts to conserve energy in a show of community spirit. In the Tokyo area, where the government mandated residents to cut their electricity use by 15 per cent during ...
Come out for season of jazz, pop and other favorites
Bakersfield Californian
"Organizations are recalibrating and adjusting to the 'new normal,'" Wilson said. "Everyone's making adjustments and re-thinking how they work, and that's good." A single ticket price gets you a year's worth of jazz-pop, John Denver songs, ...
LAWRENCE MARTIN: What happened to Canadian standards of living?
iPolitics.ca (subscription)
... for the elimination of the deficit, but not for the elimination or major reduction of unemployment. A rate of seven percent, considerably worse than in the old Canada, seems fine. In the new Canada of stagnant living standards it's the new normal.
Northern Reflections: The New Normal
By Owen Gray
The New Normal. Lawrence Martin has an interesting rejoinder to Stephen Harper's claim that -- economically speaking -- Canada is at the head of the G8 pack. If you look at Canada's economic record from an historical perspective, there is ...
Northern Reflections
High savings are the new normal - macrobusiness.com.au ...
By Unconventional Economist
As you can see, if we get historical reversion, savings could go much higher again: Moreover, with households seemingly loaded-up with debt, there appears to be little scope to return to their recent spend-thrift ways: This is the new normal… ...
macrobusiness.com.au
Is slurring people online the new normal? - Seattle Public Education ...
Two stories show the magnitude of the cyberbullying problem. In the first story, Connie Cass and Jennifer Agiesta of AP are reporting in the story, Poll:
www.examiner.com/.../is-slurring-people-online-the-new-nor...

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