Saturday, September 17, 2011

The 'New Normal' Does Not Have to Be Slower Growth!

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The 'New Normal' Does Not Have to Be Slower Growth!
Huffington Post (blog)
There is no reason to accept what pundits and some economists are telling us we have to accept -- a 'new normal' for economic growth that is some kind of growth recession. Because we have the means to spur sufficient economic growth, if only we will ...
"The new Normal"...the new name for 2011 economics
Examiner.com
It finally has a name, “the new normal”, albeit a bad name, but at least it's a start. The Republicans refer to this term to try to defend why they oppose job creation from government spending programs in the US The term basically represents a belief ...
Adjusting to the New Normal
TheStreet.com
By TheLFB-Forex.com 09/16/11 - 11:25 AM EDT The following commentary comes from an independent investor or market observer as part of TheStreet's guest contributor program, which is separate from the company's news coverage. NEW YORK (TheLFB-Forex) ...
Getting used to the 'new normal'
Uinta County Herald
Their “new normal” was to miss their daughter who was gone forever, and they dreaded the time when their son-in-law would find someone new to take her place. We know another person who lost his good job, and there is absolutely no chance of him ever ...
Get used to it: Volatile becomes the new normal
Portland Business Journal
Volatile is the new normal. We've got to learn to live with it, at least for the next few years. I've been heading this direction for some time. Recent news reports pushed me over the edge. I was particularly struck by two news items late last month. ...
Set your Swiss watch for the next billion-pound debacle
The Guardian (blog)
'Rogue' trading is the new normal in a barely regulated City. Prepare to be flabbergasted for some time to come Do you have your shocked face ready for 2014? It is three years since the Société Générale trader Jérôme Kerviel was able to cause $7bn of ...
Negotiating the new investment landscape
Money Management
Matt Hopkins provides guidance on how to deal with the “new normal”. The last 15 years have been characterised by angst over 'moral hazard' or the 'Greenspan Put'. Investors were implicitly encouraged to take even more risk, because if anything went ...
Weekly Review: Pressure on Corporate Profits
NASDAQ
There is a close relationship between corporate profits and productivity that has been developing since 2000 - a New Normal effect. After the trough of the Great Recession, I estimated that corporate profits would grow beyond most analysts' ...
SA's take on Climate Reality
ITWeb (blog)
By Lezette Engelbrecht, ITWeb online features editor Extreme weather events are becoming the new normal, said Jeunesse Park in her delivery of the 24 Hours of Reality presentation. South Africans joined millions of others last night in watching the...
Was Kelis right about British racism?
The Guardian
Things are not "disgusting" in Britain, as the American singer Kelis pronounced this week, but we do seem to be moving towards a new normal. Let's start with the good stuff. Britain is one of the most liberal, most tolerant countries in the world. ...
Gore Takes Climate Change Slide Show Around the World in 24 Hours
New York Times
"Global warming has changed the conditions in which all storms form," said Gore, who quoted a scientist stating that the phenomenon represents a "new normal." "They used to say that you can't connect any single event to climate," said Gore, ...
IMB couples follow God, find each other
BP News
But after working with missionary families in the US and abroad, God showed me a 'new normal' and a peace about going." The single missionaries appointed in Orlando share the same determination to obey God as the couples do -- despite the challenge of ...
University of Alabama System revenues up 4 percent
al.com (blog)
The UA System Board of Trustees approved the budgets Friday for all three universities, calling the current economic situation "the new normal." UA System Chancellor Malcolm Portera said that declining state appropriations are a national trend and that ...
Not all the arrows are pointing down
Globe and Mail
Is there a new normal? Pretty much every stock index is down on a year-to-date basis, but additionally the correlations of stocks within indices are also on the rise. The correlation of the top 250 stocks in the S&P 500 is 81 per cent. ...
Plotting a Course
Memphis Daily News
The new normal – as someone phrased it a few years ago – is switching into that new paradigm where you can't do business in certain areas the way you did three or four years ago. It's just changed.” Eric Meyers, a local small-business owner who serves ...
Ten years later the world is still turning
Lexington Dispatch
This is a new normal now. The sun has continued to go up and down, and the world turns round and round. Monday we will welcome the Davidson County Agricultural Fair, our annual rite of passage between summer and fall. The fair takes us back in time. ...
Attack against higher ed seen
Online Athens
Huckaby warned that educators will have to continue to do more with less. Even when the economy recovers, budgets will never return to their pre-recession levels, he said. "We are facing a new reality," he said. "... (T)here is a new normal...
Teresa Mathai: 'The Private Pain and Loss Endures'
San Leandro India West
Other times, we try and count our blessings and enjoy our family and find a new normal. We know he would want us to live a fulfilled life. To remember him, we look through our photo albums and remember our travels and family reunions, the good times ...
It's a wacky solution but not entirely without merit
Namibia Economist
Sputtering markets have now become the hallmark of the so-called new normal. It is no longer much of a surprise to see market shed 2.5 to 3% in a single day, often with intra-day volatility exceeding 4%, only to bounce back by the same magnitude the ...
Summit touts improvement
St. George Daily Spectrum
I don't think the current economy is going to be the new normal." The highlight of the event came at the dinner where representatives of several of the top businesses and organizations in Iron County spoke about their economic impact and future. ...
The Don To The Buck: You're Fired!
Resource Investor
The latest monthly report on gold from the ABN AMRO Virtual Metals team finds that gold has now entered a volatile trading phase – one that presents weekly swings on the order of $150 as the “new normal” to which the small investor must warm up to, ...
Old Detroit rears its head in talks
The Detroit News
To autoworkers accustomed to generous employment terms, adjusting to a new normal unlike the old one can breed bitter resentment that should feel familiar to lots of Americans, whatever the color of their collar. Michigan's unemployment rate, at 11.2 ...
How to Know If You're On Track for Retirement
TIME
From 1926 through 2000, the S&P 500 had an annualized return of just over 11%. Since then it has had an annualized return below 2%. With interest rates near historic lows, investors must be prepared for a new normal when it comes to investment returns.
Fredericton's unemployment rate higher than Saint John, Moncton
CanadaEast.com
Chase said 2010 was an unusually strong year in construction in Fredericton, and 2011 will represent the new normal construction level. "It's reflective of the same numbers that appeared in our development committee building stats the other day," he ...
Lessons From Ohio | LJ Feature Story
Library Journal
Granted, with the great recession of 2008, the notion of long-term funding stability seems like an improbability in these “new normal” times. Nonetheless, the Ohio Library Council (OLC), our very effective statewide professional organization, ...
Chatting With a NOAA Meteorologist About This Drought: What It Is and What It ...
Dallas Observer (blog)
"This is not the new normal in terms of drought. Texas knows drought. Texas has been toughened on the anvil of droughts that have come and gone. This is not a climate change drought. What we do anticipate from climate change is a situation where ...
Save sinking state retirement ship before it's too late
Charleston Post Courier
William H. Gross, PIMCO founder, wrote last winter that investors are "staring straight into new normal real growth rates of 2 percent or less. There is no 8 percent there for pension funds." Michael Bloomberg, billionaire investor and mayor of New ...
Are Your Leaders Thinking Critically and Clearly?
Chief Learning Officer
This is the argument she scribed in a recent white paper, “Developing Critical Thinking in Today's Leaders: No Room for Old-School Leadership Development in the New Normal.” In it, she challenges corporate learning leaders to adapt and implement more...
Light At The End Of The Tunnel For Floral Businesses
PerishableNews (press release)
Surviving without getting some things done is part of the “new normal” conditions under which companies must operate. The number of flowers imported from Colombia is down by double-digit percentages each month, said Jim Daly of Floralife Inc. in ...
PayPal previews Google Mobile Wallet rival
Marketing
"There's a "new normal" in retail. Shopping is 24×7 and it happens everywhere – not just in a store or website. The intersection of smartphones, social media, online and offline shopping has put the consumer squarely in control. ...
Gangadhar Darbha & Urjit R Patel Inflation herding & Indian PIGs
Business Standard
Is the suspension of long-standing conservative inflation targets temporary, or is this the new “normal”? Authorities want to take credit for India's growth performance but stay blameless on the price front, a case of heads I win, tails you lose! ...
Finding My New Normal: The Elephant In The Room
By My New Normal
Tales from an American Expat living in London. Dealing with the loss of a child is never easy, but it's even more difficult when you live so far from home. Life will never be "normal" again and so now the challenge is to find my new normal...
Finding My New Normal
Obama administration releases open government status report | Gov ...
By Alex Howard
... government, to strike the proper balance between transparency and the protection of national security and personal privacy, to change agency culture so that openness becomes the new normal–such issues require long-term commitment. ...
Gov 2.0: The Power of Platforms
The New Normal | Craigslist Foundation
The New Normal, presented by Aimee Allison ... Hear her inspiring thoughts on how the new normal doesn't have to be a time of decay and decline but instead ...
craigslistfoundation.org/resources/the-new-normal/

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