Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Surviving in the new normal

Surviving in the new normal
The Asset
That is the new normal, which is very unsettling. It will be a rolling crisis, a low-level fever for many more quarters, if not years,” he says, adding that markets need to be allowed to correct themselves. Tam believes that the current bailouts are ...

The Asset

Economist's View: Hiding Behind Links
By Mark Thoma
... the large increase in demand needed to drive an economic recovery. Things are looking better, and the green shoots might just be real this time around, but we are still a long, long way from returning to whatever our new normal might be. ...
Economist's View

Ready for some reversals of fortune?
MotorTrend Magazine
By Todd Lassa Fortunes are reversing as the automobile industry discovers a new normal. General Motors' outlook has improved. The world's second-largest automaker is the largest by global sales volume for the first time in three years, as it expands ...

Construction the 'new normal' in Slave Lake
Calgary Herald
“The new normal is pretty busy, but that's the way it has to be, I guess. The work has been punctuated by a number of high-profile events in the community, from a honeymoon stop by Prince William and Kate Middleton, a recent Stanley Cup tour and a Jim ...

In-depth: 2011, how was it for you?
MicroScope
But many in the channel managed to survive and flourish in this 'new normal'. Amro Gebreel looks back on the year that was. Powwownow CEO, Andrew Pearce told MicroScope it has been a good year for many companies in the technological sphere, ...

De Blasio makes his move on living wage in New York City
WNYC
“The new normal is that John Liu is out of the mayoral race and the Public Advocate is picking that support up,” Tobman said. Speaker Quinn has been performing a balancing act over the legislation. On side has been a vocal labor coalition and their ...

To 2011: goodbye and good riddance
Bellingham Herald
And while we witnessed an unmatched succession of extremes in nearly every weather category this year, climate scientists have pointed to the likelihood that such extremes are not an anomaly but may be the new normal. This doesn't mean we wave the ...

Kings' wait for Darryl Sutter about to end after 'bizarre' road trip
Winnipeg Free Press
Change has become the new normal for this team. Murray was fired in Boston at the outset of their four-game road trip and rumours have been flying around since, prompting Lombardi to meet with the players in Columbus and explain what was happening ...

Lake students create unique safety net for needy peers
Orlando Sentinel
Lake, Seminole and Orange each have dozens of on-campus food pantries and supply rooms that provide clothing, school supplies or canned food to needy children, "I would almost say that it would be kind of a new normal, because so many of our families ...

Orlando Sentinel

More Dreary News For Central Oregon Homeowners
OPB News
She says homeowners in Bend, like others around the country, are beginning to accept what she calls the "new normal." "I think people are readjusting their point of view about what the value of their property or their home is because it is so far down ...

Emerging Issues: Doing Less with Less, and Beyond
Nation's Cities Weekly
“New normal” is not the way to think about this situation. NLC's Director of the Center for Research and Innovation, Christopher Hoene, says that the phrase ignores history. He's looked at the data over the past 30-40 years and determined that the ...

Just as I was hoping for a quiet last day at work before vacation...
Newsradio 620 (blog)
If that's the strategy, what you heard Friday is no exception. If party leaders didn't like what they heard Friday and seek a change in approach, it's the new rule. And, it's going to make the new normal we're living in even more uncivil.

Outlook 2012: Global Economy View—JP Morgan, LPL, S&P
AdvisorOne
“The challenge currently facing global policymakers is how to chart a course for moderate but sustained economic growth in an environment where regulators are demanding—and consumer behavior is adjusting to—a 'new normal' environment, ...

AdvisorOne

A Familiar -- And Winning -- Refrain
AZCardinals.com
Certainly, there is nothing normal about how the Cards (7-7) are doing business these days except that they have created a new normal to keep feint playoff hopes alive. To go from a six-game losing streak earlier in the year to a current four-game ...

AZCardinals.com

Will the economy turn around in 2012?
CBS Moneywatch
... to expect the large increase in demand needed to drive an economic recovery. Things are looking better, and the green shoots might just be real this time around, but we are still a long, long way from returning to whatever our new normal might be.

Experience as a hindrance
Boston.com
In this “new normal” economic environment, many employees are making less than they were just a few years ago. Focus on the total offer, not just the base salary. The commute, the benefits, the role, the company's mission's and the work environment are ...

Kolding quits Maersk
ifw-net.com
Maersk is in the middle of putting both into practice, through the New Normal initiative and Daily Maersk, effectively a daily service between key Asian and European ports. He also unveiled Maersk's massive order for 18000teu ships, with 20 now being ...

Cess in the cesspool
Daily Pioneer
A special cess on each bill paid by the citizen — besides income tax, property tax, sales tax, service tax, road tax, et al — is now the new normal. In one saving scheme where fixed instalments are made for a fixed number of years, Rs 155 has been ...

Recommended: VIDEO: First Read Minute: Boehner balks at temporary payroll-tax ...
msnbc.com
But I guess this is just represents the new normal in Washington, where blinding GOP intransigence means that any proposal signed off on by President Obama, no matter how reasonable or popular, is rejected by uber-partisan Republican thugs. ...

Local Military Families React to End of Iraq War
WDIO-TV
It's just a new normal." For the Superior sister of a fallen Marine the wars end gives her step brother's death validation. "It wasn't in vain," said Jennifer VanAlstine. "It just kind of confirms what they were working towards. ...

Gold price forecast to drop below $1500 in Q1
ArabianBusiness.com
I'm bullish on PM's but lets not copy/paste what others say and try to pass it off as "my opinion". Welcome to the new normal...where you can't expect more than 6% return per year...but you have to sit through >4% moves per day.

Barclays on US Oil Services & Drilling: Jackup Strength Builds; Floater ...
StreetInsider.com (subscription)
We note that this trend is tapering out but expect higher downtime and longer permitting lead times for floaters to be a new-normal in the post-Macondo heightened safety environment." "Adjusting Estimates: As a result of these changes and other updates ...

Why real estate investors should not compromise on property quality
AGBeat (blog)
When you hear/read that we're in the new normal, what I've been talkin' about here is on the A-List. The markets that lulled us the last 40+ years into thinkin' we were investment gods aren't granting cartoonish appreciation rates any time in the near ...

Work Shifting - The Workshifting Work/Life Balance Dilemma: Stay ...
By Natalya Sabga
"But once you begin expanding your work hours on a regular basis, working 'normal' hours starts to look like slacking off. In other words, if you establish a pattern of staying late, your extended hours become the new normal." Akin to a gateway ...
workshifting

Membership, Technology, Shop Local Top 2011 Accomplishments ...
By Tensley
“From the many conversations I've had with members over the past year, I observe an atmosphere best described as the “new normal,” commented John Martin, Sandler Training. “Businesses are very focused, working harder, looking for ways ...
Northbrook

9–11 The Simple Facts – Why the Official Story Can't Possibly be ...
By Shepard
What we see around us is an ever increasing Police State not only in the United States, but globally is a direct result of the never ending (corporate funded) War on Terror – the New Normal. Here is a prime example of 9/11 linkage to the ...

DocComment: Ghosts of Economies Past | The Daily Capitalist
By DoctoRx
I haven't decided if in this remake of an old movie, time is running backward or forward. Maybe some of each. So far as yours truly is concerned, some basic rules of the investing game appear to have changed again. Our “new normal” may be ...
The Daily Capitalist

Bankrate Survey Showing More End of Year Financial Confidence ...
By Administrator
... 50-64, households with annual income less than $30000 and the unemployed are the groups most likely to report their overall financial situation as worse today than one year ago.” Better… still nothing great. The new normal. JON C. OGG ...
24/7 Wall St.

frankl: meaning as a sheep in wolfs clothing | Madame Pickwick Art ...
By Dave
The patient was silent for a short time, then he stood up, said “No, thanks, doctor,” shook his hand, left and started to lead a new normal life.9 This patient did what Scottie, who precisely tried to recreate the same woman, wasn't able to do: he ...
Madame Pickwick Art Blog

JED BABBIN: IRAQ IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR (ABSOLUTELY ...
By Ruth King
Shia violence that overwhelmed Iraq after the Samarra mosque bombing in February 2006 was quelled by General Petraeus's troop surge. When the violence subsided to Iraq's new normal, so did the controversy. From late 2008, America has ...
RUTHFULLY YOURS

Why Not Start the New Year by Doing Something Strategic in Talent ...
By Dr. John Sullivan
Prepare for VUCA, the new normal — talent management plans, approaches, and processes need to be improved so that they can handle the new business environment that we face (VUCA = Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) ...
ERE.net

Moments with Mabrey: A New Normal
A New Normal. We're still adjusting to a new normal around here. Several other experienced foster/adoptive parents had advised us to give it at least one month ...
momentswithmabrey.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-normal.html

Volatility the New Normal? - Fox Business Video - Fox Business
Volatility the New Normal? Dec 19, 2011. - 4:55 -. Empyrion Wealth Management President Kimberly Foss argues until we get leadership from Washington the ...
video.foxbusiness.com/v/.../volatility-the-new-normal/

The New Normal: Getting Comfortable with Risk: The Agile Manifesto Revisitedhttp://t.co/AcXKuNAd (via @royabehnia)
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