Saturday, December 29, 2012

Investment Outlook - Strawberry Fields – Forever?

Our continuing series excerpts from PIMCO--

PIMCO | Investment Outlook - Strawberry Fields – Forever?: " . . .  as recently published in a TIME Magazine article by Rana Foroohar, is a PIMCO list of future Picks and Pans based upon these ongoing structural changes: Picks Commodities like Oil and Gold, U.S. Inflation-Protected Bonds, High-Quality Municipal Bonds, Non-Dollar Emerging-Market Stocks, . . .Long-Dated Developed-Country Bonds in the U.S., U.K. and Germany High-Yield Bonds, Financial Stocks of Banks and Insurance Companies . . . "

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Structural headwinds may reduce New Normal growth

Our continuing series excerpts from PIMCO--

PIMCO | Investment Outlook - Strawberry Fields – Forever?: " . . . there are numerous other structural headwinds that may reduce real growth even below the New Normal 2% rate that Bernanke has just confirmed, not only in the U.S. but in developed economies everywhere. They are: 1) Debt/Delevering . . . In addition to sovereign debt levels which were the primary focus of the Reinhart/Rogoff studies, it is clear that financial institutions and households face similar growth headwinds. . . . 2) Globalization . . . Now, however, these tailwinds are diminishing, producing an airspeed which inexorably slows relative to the standards of prior decades. Is it any wonder that markets now move up or down as much on the basis of policy changes coming out of China as opposed to the U.S. or Euroland? If China and the accompanying benefits of globalization slow, so too may developed economy growth rates. 3) Technology . . . Almost a century ago, Keynes alerted the economic community to a “new disease,” what he called “technological unemployment” where jobs couldn’t be replaced as fast as they were being destroyed by automation. . . . Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren’t enough of those jobs. A structurally higher unemployment rate of 7% or more is the feared “whisper” number in Fed circles. Technology may be leading to slower, not faster economic growth despite its productive benefits. . . 4) Demographics . . . demographic population changes are becoming a silent growth killer. . . . "

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Structural headwinds cannot just be wished away - a new normal

Our continuing series excerpts from PIMCO--

PIMCO | Investment Outlook - Strawberry Fields – Forever?: "the real cause of slower economic growth lies hidden in a number of structural as opposed to cyclical headwinds that may be hard to reverse. While there are growth potions that undoubtedly can reduce the fever, there may be no miracle policy drugs this time around to provide the inevitable cures of prior decades. These structural headwinds cannot just be wished away as we move “forward” whether it be to the right, the left or dead center. Last month in a major policy speech at the New York Economic Club, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke concurred that the U.S. economy’s growth potential had been reduced “at least for a time.” He in effect confirmed PIMCO’s New Normal which has been in place for three years now, laying the blame in part on the financial crisis, diminished productivity gains, and investment uncertainty due to the near-term fiscal cliff. We do not disagree."

Chuck Hagel gets Susan Rice treatment
Washington Post (blog)
Chuck Hagel, Susan Rice and the new normal for Cabinet nominations. Posted by Aaron Blake on December 20, 2012 at 6:30 am. Smaller Text Larger Text Text Size; Print · Reprints. Share: More ». Facebook · Twitter · StumbleUpon · Digg · Delicious. For the ...

Cabinet nominees' 'new normal'; Fallon jokes on Chenault nomination; McCain's ...
Washington Post (blog)
Cabinet controversies — Until recently, it's been unusual for a president's Cabinet picks to face serious opposition. Our friends at the Fix, though, say there's a “new normal” for nominees. What's in his wallet? — Jimmy Fallon's latest material is ...

NBC's "The New Normal" is TV's gayest sitcom ever, with no apology
Denver Post
The difference between "Will & Grace" and "The New Normal," which returns Jan. 8 and plays Tuesdays on NBC, is the difference between those who grew up losing friends to AIDS and those who grew up with marriage equality on the ballot. It's the ...

Our New Normal: The Aftermath of Sandy Hook
Huffington Post
Driving to dinner last Friday night, my husband turned down the radio and calmly said, "Not that it will ever happen -- because it won't- - but we should talk about what you should do if a shooting ever breaks out while you're out somewhere with Buddy ...

Opinion: Major storms will be the 'new normal' for NJ - Plan wisely
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
By Rush Holt. In recent years, New Jersey has experienced unprecedented floods, winds, rainstorms and tidal surges, most recently during Hurricane Sandy. We should expect these superstorms to be the new normal, even if climate change skeptics claim ...

The Times of Trenton - NJ.com

Are bullet-proof backpacks and school lockdowns the new normal?
STLtoday.com
It's evident that school officials, parents and students across the country are on edge after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn. There are reports that makers of bullet-proof backpacks say sales are up more than 500% since ...

NEWS: “Happy Endings” Dolls, “New Normal” New Hunks & A Great “Gatsby ...
Queerty
NEWS: “Happy Endings” Dolls, “New Normal” New Hunks & A Great “Gatsby” Trailer · Comments; Print; Email · Tweet · Happy-Endings-Max. - Happy Endings paper dolls! Or, what we'll be doing for the rest of the day. - Sean Hayes will play a single (gay?) ...

John Stamos And Mark Consuelos To Visit 'The New Normal' And More Casting ...
Huffington Post
Stamos is playing a co-worker of Jane's (Ellen Barkin) who finds his sexuality being questioned by the foul-mouthed grandma. Consuelos will appear as a grip on the "Glee"-style show created by Andrew Rannells' character, and will find himself as the ...

John Stamos And Mark Consuelos To Guest Star In The New Normal
Cinema Blend
NBC's freshman comedy, The New Normal, is currently on break, but when the show returns from the holiday hiatus, it has big plans to add two more handsome men to its already overly handsome roster. All My Children's Mark Consuelos (who also happens...

Cinema Blend
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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Part-time work becoming the new normal

Working full-time? Count yourself "lucky"--

Andersen: Part-time work becoming the new normal
The Detroit News
Perhaps by 2050, most Americans will be unpaid interns. They will go to work for the honor of being allowed to pitch in. Eventually, they might even pick up a few paid hours. Not so long ago, interns were young people who signed on for the summer at ...

Irregular lineups are the new normal for the Alaska Aces
Anchorage Daily News
Anchorage — In their last nine hockey games, the depleted Alaska Aces have used defensemen to play wing, hired a local forward to aid their lineup, anxiously awaited the arrival of a new player only to discover his gear did not arrive on his flight ...

The New Normal in California Employment; and Mr. Peguese' Christmas Presents
Fox and Hounds Daily
As we come to the end of 2012, California is in better shape today in terms of unemployment rate and payroll jobs than the previous few years. The latest state unemployment rate, through October 2012, is 10.1%, down from 11.5% in October 2011 and 12.5% ...

The New Normal in American Electoral Politics
CSNews Online
It has been interesting to watch the pundits holding court for the last month over why the election turned out the way it did. Did the President and his team have a better message, a better candidate, a better ground game? Was it the Hispanic vote, the ...

CSNews Online

Report says drooping revenues for branded drugs is the new normal
Medical Marketing and Media
The research firm expects industry branded sales to fall an average of 2.6% every year between 2013 and 2017 (branded drug sales are expected to finish 2012 down 3% to 5%). The firm blames generics for part of the downturn, but also says that the ...

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Republican habit of living with eyes closed

Continuing series excerpts from PIMCO--

PIMCO | Investment Outlook - Strawberry Fields – Forever?: "Rather than an economic mandate, November’s election was more of social commentary on the Republicans’ habit of living with eyes closed. Their positions on what Conan O’Brien labeled “female body parts” – immigration, gay rights and student loans – proved to be big losers, and they will have to amend rather than defend those views if they expect to compete in 2016. I suspect they will. Political parties are living social organisms that mutate in order to survive. We will see straight talking Chris Christie or Hispanic flavored Marco Rubio leading the Republican charge four years from now versus a reenergized Hillary Clinton. It should be quite a show with a “No Country for Old (White) Men” caste to it. . ."

Fines: 'New normal' for banks?
Bayoubuzz
Fines: 'New normal' for banks? HSBC was fined for money laundering activities tied to drug cartels in Mexico and terror-linked groups in Saudi Arabia in December 2012. . Fines: 'New normal' for banks? Standard Chartered was levied the fine on August ...

Warmer weather may be the new normal - Washington Times
Unless the mercury takes a significant dive in the next three weeks, 2012 is set to become the warmest year on record for the United States — a historic ...

How retirees can cope with Fed's "new normal"
Reuters
CHICAGO (Reuters) - If you are still wondering whether we are in a "new normal" investment climate of ultra-low interest rates, wonder no more: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke settled any lingering doubts last week when he guaranteed rates will ...

Out-of Wedlock Births Society's 'New Normal' - US - CBN News - Christian News ...
Christian Broadcasting Network
More children are now being born outside of marriage, according to a new study by the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values. The report focuses on what it calls "middle-America," the nearly 60 percent of Americans who complete ...

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

A New Normal: Iyanla Vanzant on How to Renew Your Life (Video)

A New Normal: Iyanla Vanzant on How to Renew Your Life (VIDEO): "In this video, Iyanla explains why we cannot return to dead, broken relationships or circumstances. "Sometimes things just die," Iyanla says. "That doesn't mean that they can't come back to life, but they've got to come back as something new, not as the same old dead thing." Watch now to get Iyanla's five steps for renewing a relationship in your life, moving forward -- and creating a "new normal." You can catch "Iyanla: Fix My Life" Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET on OWN."

New York Planners Prep For A 'New Normal' Of Powerful Storms
WNYC
So New Yorkers, local politicians and scientists face a tough decision: How to spend limited funds to defend themselves from what climate experts call "the new normal." New York City faces the Atlantic Ocean like a chin waiting to be hit, and Sandy ...

Blog: No We Can't: The New Normal of High Unemployment
American Thinker (blog)
Remember back in 2004 President Obama's criticism of unemployment under former President George W. Bush when it touched 5.5 percent? There should be virtual howls coming from every journalistic corner in the country about the last four years of high ...

Mali's Coup 2.0 - Adjusting to the New Normal
AllAfrica.com
While international condemnation has poured in, many in Bamako have responded to the forced resignation of Mali's PM with apathy and impatience. Dakar - "What else is there to say?" asked Malian shop owner Aliou Sidibe over the phone, "it is the guys ...

Record fines: 'New normal' for banking business? - CNN.com
In a historic fine, HSBC will pay out a record $1.92 billion to U.S. authorities to settle money laundering accusations -- activities which have allegedly occurred ...

I want my Gay TV
Salon
My change of heart was brought about by the premiere of “The New Normal,” Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler's series, which I was all set to dislike, in part because I bristle at gimmicks, and this is chock-full of them: a gay couple (played by Andrew Rannells ...

Salon

Op-Ed: in New Mexico, SuperPacs Are the New Normal
KUNM
New Mexico may not have been a swing state this year in the presidential election, but someone upped the ante when it came to the legislature. SuperPacs poured almost $4 million into roundhouse races, most of it for TV ads and hate mail asking ...

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Saturday, December 15, 2012

New Normal: Iyanla Vanzant on How to Renew Your Life

Time for a new year and renewal--

A New Normal: Iyanla Vanzant on How to Renew Your Life (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
In this season of "Iyanla: Fix My Life," author and relationship expert Iyanla Vanzant met with Amy, a mother who left her husband and two teenage sons to go and live with another man. Amy reached out for Iyanla's help to fix her mistake and return ...

Forum discusses 'new normal' that Shore faces in rebuilding, post-Sandy
Asbury Park Press
WEST LONG BRANCH — What if gas stations were required to be powered by solar energy? Would the shortages and rationing that took place after superstorm Sandy knocked out electricity still have occurred? Would installation of foundation flood vents in ...

Resilience, preparedness under the new normal
Sun.Star
TYPHOON Pablo hit Region 11 the hardest. Majority of the dead, now estimated at 327, came from Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental, and more are missing. With banana growers alone projecting damage at US$318M expect the economic ...

The New Normal: PW Talks with Herman Koch
Publishers Weekly
The New Normal: PW Talks with Herman Koch. By Ken Salikof. Dec 07, 2012. Dutch author Herman Koch's novel, The Dinner, is a psychological thriller about a five-course restaurant meal that goes terribly awry; the narrative constantly forces the reader ...

Mean girls, stay home!
Salon
Last week, I was watching another of executive producer Ryan Murphy's shows, “TheNew Normal.” In this particular episode, gay couple Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David (Justin Bartha) found out the gender of the baby that was growing in the belly of...

Salon

The New Normal: Baby Proofing | Watch the video - Yahoo! Screen
Watch the video The New Normal: Baby Proofing on Yahoo! Screen . David and Bryan must overcome their bad habits for the sake of their future baby.

Extreme weather is new normal
Extreme weather is new normal. Environmental Updates. Extreme weather is new normal. Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 5 December, 2012 : - - Extreme ...

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Economic Stagnation Is the New Normal

Stagnating economy, the New Normal--we're in for a "long ride"--

RealClearMarkets - Under Obama, Economic Stagnation Is the New Normal: " . . . Friday's "Employment Situation" report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed that 5.4 million Americans have dropped out of the labor force since Barack Obama took office. The labor force declined by 350,000 in November, despite an increase of 191,000 in our working age population. The unprecedented decline of labor force participation under President Obama is not news. However, it also appears that millions of brain cells have dropped out of the mental labor force of America's economic analysts. How else can we account for headlines like these? "Jobs report: A pleasant surprise" (Jared Bernstein) "The employment emergency is over" (Felix Salmon) "Fiscal cliff? What fiscal cliff? No evidence in jobs numbers" (Stephen Gandel) In case anyone didn't notice, the BLS jobs report was terrible. Unemployment didn't go down in November (from 7.9% to 7.7%) as the BLS reported, it actually went up. The true unemployment rate, calculated at the labor force participation rate that existed when Bush 43 left office (65.8%), increased from 10.7% to 10.8%. This put the true unemployment rate 1.3 percentage points higher than when Obama's so-called "economic recovery" began, almost 3.5 years ago. As of November 2012, total employment was still 3.2 million below its peak, which occurred five years earlier. This is particularly ghastly, because America's working age population has increased by 11.2 million since then. . . . We had fewer full-time jobs last month than we did in January 2005, which was almost eight years ago. Assuming that November's CPI comes in as expected (2.0% annual inflation rate), the real wages of ordinary ("production and non-supervisory") workers were 1.9% lower in November 2012 than they were in November 2010. They were also 9.0% lower than they were in November 1964, for that matter. Question: How can anyone look at something as dismal as Friday's BLS report and see anything but economic stagnation? . . . "

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Resiliency is the New Normal

High Scalability - Resiliency is the New Normal - A ...
Resiliency is the New Normal - A Deep Look at What It Means and How to Build It . Date Monday, December 3, 2012 at 9:08AM. Perhaps it is because the whole ...
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Anglican women clergy now 'part of new normal'
The Age
TWENTY years ago Elizabeth Alfred became the first woman ordained an Anglican priest in Victoria. She was 78, a formidable age to launch a new career, but the next day she celebrated the Eucharist at St James, Dandenong. She had waited more than five ...

The Age

As move to mobile grows, federal workforce embraces the new normal
FederalNewsRadio.com
The federal workforce is mobile and there is no going back. Agencies are changing their standards, architecture and policies to support working from anywhere at any time with secure access through any device. It's the new normal. Federal News Radio, in ...

The new normal
Inquirer.net
For as long as anyone can remember, Mindanao has been blessed with great weather; it is practically typhoon-free. On Wednesday, that blessing turned into a curse, as Typhoon “Pablo” slammed into the island—and hundreds of thousands of residents did ...

Villaflor: The new normal
Sun.Star
As it faces traditional powerhouse Singapore tomorrow night in their semifinal first leg of the AFF Suzuki Cup in Manila, the Philippine Azkals are on the cusp of rewriting Southeast Asian football history, again. Azkals fans, of course, would never ...

FAMILY: Adults living with parents create new normal
Press-Enterprise
The percentage of young adults living with their parents has skyrocketed. There are lots of reasons: economic downturn; exorbitant cost of living alone; difficulty obtaining credit to secure an apartment or home. It is not surprising when I see a ...

Tuesday TV Show Ratings: Go On, New Normal, Emily Owens, Shark Tank ...
TV Series Finale
cbs ratings December 4, 2012 ratings — New episodes: The Voice, Shark Tank, Raising Hope, Hart Of Dixie, Ben And Kate, Go On, New Girl, Happy Endings, Emily Owens MD, The New Normal, The Mindy Project, Don't Trust The B In Apartment 23, ...

New Normal First Look Saturday Night Live Legend Cheri Oteri ...
The New Normal baby is on its way! But before David (Justin Bartha) and Bryan ( Andrew Rannells) c.

Beijing's Goal: A New Normal
Whatever the particulars, this constitutes a clear effort to create a new normal. By acting as though it exercises jurisdiction over the islands and adjacent waters, ...

Odd Danske Bank Commercial "A New Normal" Tells You What is ...
Odd Danske Bank Commercial "A New Normal" promotes police state, transhumanism ...

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

The War on Terror is Not the New Normal

The War on Terror is Not the New Normal
New York Times (blog)
One of the biggest questions about the “war on terror” is whether real vigilance and necessary action will become an excuse for government intrusion into our lives, the erosion of our civil liberties and the maiming of our sons and daughters. There is ...Perhaps Mr. Johnson put it best when he said, “In its 12th year, we must not accept the current conflict, and all that it entails, as the ‘new normal.’ Peace must be regarded as the norm toward which the human race continually strives.”

'New normal': low rates, high dollar
Sydney Morning Herald
Cuts in interest rates are proving less effective in lowering the dollar and boosting business activity than might have been expected, but are still working to support the economy overall, Reserve Bank deputy governor Philip Lowe says. Mr Lowe also ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Bill Gross: New Normal is here to stay
CNN
The fiscal cliff may be the biggest short-term threat for the market, but there are even scarier problems to worry about, according to Pimco chief investment strategist Bill Gross. In his latest letter to investors, posted online Tuesday, Gross ...

The New Normal Season 1 Review “Baby Proofing”: A Locked-Up, Drunken ...
TV Equals
This episode of The New Normal, “Baby Proofing,” was a little bit uneven, I felt. It was still a good episode, but it felt a lot more low-key than other episodes. We did get a return visit from Cheri Oteri, so that's always good. Oteri's character, the ...

TV Equals

'The New Normal' Creator Dishes on Tonight's Episode; What's In Store for ...
Hollywood.com
ALT Considering The New Normal is about a gay guy named Bryan who runs a show called Sing, Glee creator Ryan Murphy gets most of the credit for putting stories from his real life on the NBC comedy. But don't forget about co-creator Ali Adler (formerly ...

Hollywood.com

Exclusive Interview with THE NEW NORMAL star Georgia King
Assignment X
In NBC's THE NEW NORMAL, created by Ali Adler and Ryan Murphy, Midwesterner Goldie Clemmons, played by Georgia King, takes her young daughter Shania (Bebe Wood) and strikes out for California in the hopes of making a better life for both of them.

'Abnormal the new normal' with climate
Philadelphia Daily News
"The abnormal is the new normal," Ban told environment ministers and climate officials from nearly 200 countries. "This year, we have seen Manhattan and Beijing under water, hundreds of thousands of people washed from their homes in Colombia, Peru, the ...

Philadelphia Daily News

The new normal on the Turkish-Syrian border
Al-Arabiya
Tensions flared on the Turkish-Syrian border again over the weekend as Syrian regime forces and rebels clashed near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, just across from Turkey's Hatay province. Shells fired during the clashes fell into the Turkish town of ...

Al-Arabiya

UN chief: Extreme weather is the new normal | News | GMA News ...
DOHA - Extreme weather is the new normal and poses a threat to the human race, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday as he sought to revive deadlocked global climate change talks.
GMA News Online

"The New Normal" Recap: Gay Christmas | AfterElton.com
The weather outside might be frightful, but Nana on eggnog is so delightful. Yes, we have discovered Nana's kryptonite. A few sips of the 'nogg and she ...

Bill Gross: New Normal is here to stay - The Buzz - Investment and ...
The fiscal cliff may the biggest short-term threat for the market, but there are even scarier problems to worry about, according to Pimco chief investment strategist ...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Japan seeks new normal after 2011 earthquake

Profound changes in Japan after the 2011 earthquake--Japan's New Normal--

Japan seeks new normal after 2011 earthquake - FT.com: "Nearly two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the technological challenges facing Japan are becoming clearer and more daunting. The country is embarking on what could be a revolution in energy production, even as it grapples with the end of its decades-long dominance in consumer electronics. This year has seen the emergence of vocal public opposition to nuclear power, seemingly absent in the shock-filled months after the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi power plant. . . . "

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

New Normal: Poor, Not Special, But Here

Welcome To The New Normal: Poor, Not Special, But Here And Not ...
…it is possible a great presence is moving near me. I have faith in nights. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke~. In her November 25 article, “Becoming One Of 'Them ...

Exclusive New Normal First Look: Bryan and Jane Drop By Marlo Thomas ...
TVLine
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on The New Normal this Tuesday (9:30/8:30c), and we've got your exclusive first look at what the freshman NBC comedy has in store for the holidays. After discovering how holly and jolly egg nog makes Jane ...

Loss and Damage From Climate Change Must Not Become the "New Normal"
Truth-Out
Doha, Qatar - As United Nations climate talks get underway this week in Doha, Qatar, they show a subtle, unsettling shift in the global climate change debate. Just four or five years ago, the debate was sharply focused on how much we should cut ...

Ellen Barkin Verbally Assaulting “The New Normal” Cast & Crew?
RumorFix (blog)
It's pretty rare that an actor's character on TV is ever a true representation of their real-life personality. But according a tabloid wants us to belive that this is the case for The New Normal star Ellen Barkin. Star magazine is claiming the actress ...

Sluggish growth looks like Canada's new normal
Montreal Gazette
The big drop in Canada's economic growth rate reported Friday is more than a hiccup; it's the newreality for much of the coming year. While that's far from a disaster in a country that's still a haven of prosperity, modest unemployment and financial ...

Jamaica Bay Can Point the Way Toward a More Resilient Post-Sandy New York
Huffington Post (blog)
In the past 14 months the new normal has brought New York two storms severe enough to warrant mandatory evacuation, and three of the 10 highest flood events of the past century in the last three years. As residents of Jamaica Bay, the city at large and ...

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Saturday, December 1, 2012

Danske Bank Claims New Normal

New normal, the bank claims. New low, its critics retort (Photo: Danske Bank)
The Copenhagen Post
New normal: It's safe to say that this hasn't been a good week for Danske Bank. First, public broadcaster DR aired the lasted episode of its news documentary series 'Sikke en fest', in which it detailed that the bank nearly collapsed in 2008 before ...

The Copenhagen Post

Economists React: Is Five-Point-Something Growth the New Normal?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In early 2011, New Delhi was confident the economy was on track to expand 9% that year. It didn't happen, and now we're getting used to five-point-something growth rates. The latest: between July and September, India's gross domestic product grew 5.3% ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Reps Call Storms Like Sandy 'The New Normal'
Westport Now
Washington—In the first congressional hearing on Hurricane Sandy today, lawmakers from storm-hit states made appeals for billions of dollars in additional aid and said massive, destructive storms are “the new normal.” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., ...

The new 'normal' in Israeli education
Haaretz
The new 'normal' in Israeli education. In the name of the Education Ministry's administration and its pedagogical department, and on behalf of Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar, a change is hereby declared in the definition of "normalcy." By Yossi Klein ...

Haaretz

Jack Smith and the original "New Normal"
Creative Loafing Atlanta
A half-century before sass-talking gays and ironic camp occupied prime time television in programs like "Modern Family," "The New Normal," and "Glee," underground filmmakers Kenneth Anger and Jack Smith pioneered the modern queer aesthetic. Smith is ...

Top Moments: Liz Lemon Gets Married and Lindsay Lohan Is Liz
The Rolla Daily News (blog)
Best Alternate Reality: On The New Normal, David reveals the surprising way he thought his life would turn out. He always thought he would have a son to play catch and drink lemonade with, but instead of marrying a man, his childhood dream involved ...

Best and Brightest at All Levels: the New Normal
DatacenterDynamics (blog)
As we enter the next half-decade or the second decade, depending on your perspective, of economic instability and near zero predictability of the context in which businesses must function, many things thought temporary are becoming institutional. Not ...

Elect More Women
The American Prospect
The right wing has been stunningly successful in creating a new normal. The idea of labor unions and the role they play in providing middle--class wages and a middle-class lifestyle, the idea of defined pensions and benefits—these are, according to ...

Exclusive New Normal Photo: Nana Gets Cuffed! - Yahoo! TV
From Yahoo! TV: Looks like The New Normal's Nana might spend Christmas in the slammer! Next Tuesday's installment of the freshman NBC comedy ...



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Thursday, November 29, 2012

College Students Meet the New Normal

College Students Meet the New Normal
Huffington Post
Maybe it's me but in the aftermath of the presidential election I don't pick up any frisson of victory and new beginnings among my students. There seems to be a sense of more of the same - only good thing is that Romney's supposed vision of doing bad ...

Wall Street Watch: Cyber Monday is the New Normal
DailyFinance
Online merchants were bombarded with traffic on the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, and they graciously accepted the attention. It was eventually theorized that the spike in buying activity was the handiwork of frustrated Black Friday ...

Early sales on Thanksgiving are the new normal
News Sentinel
For decades, stores have opened their doors in the wee hours on the day after Thanksgiving. But this year, major chains such as Target and Sears ushered in customers on Thanksgiving itself, even before the turkey leftovers had gotten cold, turning the ...

Farewell To GDP Growth, Or, Welcome To The New Normal America
Seeking Alpha
Disclosure: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha).

New Normal? Low Politics for High Goals
The Moderate Voice
After bitter brews of partisan rancor, Sunday morning talk shows suddenly serve us piquant eggs sunny side up. Historians and lame-duck officeholders abetted by the cultural currency of a new Lincoln movie fill the tube with talk about the traditional ...

Radiology's New Normal: Less Money, But New Opportunity
Diagnostic Imaging
CHICAGO — Do you feel like a marked man? Are you flinching at noises, skirting around shadows, waiting for that bullet with your name on it? You're not being paranoid. They really are out to get you — or at least your reimbursements, you cushy ...

Israel: The New Normal — BagNews
By Michael Shaw
The number, power and range of the recent barrage represents a new reality permanently altering the status quo.
BAGnewsNotes

Drones Will Be The New Normal in The U.S. If We Let Them | Crooks ...
Here's how it happens: The defense contractors see dollar signs, buy themselves a bouquet of ...

Is 'The New Normal' Total Control? -- Health & Wellness -- Sott.net
It appears that food, air, water, power, pets, and your physiology, etc., are targets for control. Think about it. We have already unknowingly eaten GM food, been ...

Danske Bank - A new normal demands New Standards - (2012 ...
Peoples reactions to this "new normal" is not a happy one. Danske Bank already had a bad reputation, as they close offices in small towns and seemingly only ...

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Is 'Black Friday' Shift to Thursday The New Normal?

Is 'Black Friday' Shift to Thursday The New Normal?
Jackson Free Press
Is 'Black Friday' Shift to Thursday The New Normal? By The Associated Press Last updated on Friday, November 23, 2012 1:18 p.m. CST. Upvote 0. This season appears to mark the end of Black Friday as we know it. For decades, stores have opened their ...

A Doctor's “new normal” under ObamaCare: “Free” has its price ...
By Darleen
A Doctor's “new normal” under ObamaCare: “Free” has its price. [Darleen Click]. Tweet. Each time you are now in the examining room, Obama is looking over your doctor's shoulder. Obamacare is awful. Forget all the “free stuff” it provides.
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Pardon Me | Video | The New Normal | NBC
After realizing the horrible fates of the turkeys at a farm, a sensitive Shania and Bryan pardon all ...
www.nbc.com/the-new-normal/video/pardon-me/1424687/

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

The New Normal Is Terrible For Forex Traders

The New Normal Is Terrible For Forex Traders
Business Insider
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The world's largest currency traders say foreign-exchange revenue is sliding as central-bank policies stifle price swings and cut volumes by $300 billion a day. Deutsche Bank AG, the biggest dealer based on Euromoney ...

Business Insider

Will Black Friday on Thanksgiving night become the new normal?
MiamiHerald.com (registration)
Will Black Friday on Thanksgiving night become the new normal? Alex Branch Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Get Adobe Flash player. Shoppers got a jump on Black Friday sales as some stores - like the Target in Columbia, S.C., opened on Thanksgiving night, ...

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Learning to deal with new normal
Bismarck Tribune
Learning to deal with new normal. Print Email. 2012-11-23T02:00:00Z 2012-11-22T16:38:08Z Learning to deal with new normalTribune editorial BismarckTribune.com. 21 minutes ago • Tribune editorial. North Dakota produced 728,494 barrels of crude oil a ...

3% annual pay raises are the new normal
CW39 NewsFix
NEW YORK, NY – Good news for all you hard working American's out there. According to this year's compensation planning survey from buck consultants, you can expect a whopping 3% raise this year. And what's really disappointing is that that's a good ...

Scoop: THE NEW NORMAL on NBC - Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Broadway World
"The XY Factor" - Despite wanting to be surprised, Bryan (Andrew Rannells) and David (Justin Bartha) accidentally find out the sex of their baby. The slip brings one dad-to-be closer to his dream family -- minus marrying Brenda Walsh (guest star ...

So What is the New Normal for GE in India?
Forbes India (blog)
In the last three years the world seems to have been setting a new normal for itself almost every year. Experts believe it'll continue for a few more years. Businesses are restructuring and refocusing, mutating as it were, in response to the brutal ...

Forbes India (blog)

Ratings: 'Apt. 23,' 'New Normal' Hit Lows as CBS Wins Night - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! TV: Wednesday night's primetime was marked by ratings declines as ABC's "Don't Trust the B---- in Apt. 23" and NBC's "The New Normal" dropped ...

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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Seeking a New Normal After Hurricane Sandy

Seeking a New Normal After Hurricane Sandy
Planet Princeton
With each new storm and power outage, it gets harder for Princeton to return to normal. Hurricane Sandy decimated not only trees and powerlines, but a lot of assumptions as well. How could this be, was the recurrent sentiment, that our 21st century ...

Planet Princeton

Late Election Results, the New Normal
East Bay Express
Last Friday morning, the Secretary of State's Office reported that there were still at least 1.7 million uncounted ballots in California — ten days after the election. The Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office, which was much more efficient at ...

In a slow-growth environment, the bond king points to opportunities in closed ...
U.S. News & World Report
Gross recently spoke with U.S. News about what he sees as a "new normal" for the markets and for investors. Edited excerpts: [Read: The 10 Most Popular Mutual Funds of 2012.] What have you done that has accounted for the Total Return Fund's impressive ...

U.S. News & World Report

In America, young voters are new normal
Janesville Gazette
We know, because we were told that we, the millennial generation of voters ages 32 and younger, weren't going to have an impact on this election, that we weren't excited—that we didn't matter. Boy, were they wrong. Statistics prove just how wrong they ...

Kaplan Test Prep Survey: Facing A Tough Employment Landscape for New ...
DailyFinance
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Responding to the reality that the toughest job market for new lawyers in 20 years may be the new normal for the foreseeable future, law schools are taking unprecedented steps to course correct. According to Kaplan Test ...

Is teleworking the new normal?
ABC Technology and Games
A new world of work has arrived. Gone are the days of being chained to your desk from 9 to 5. Now it's a world of flexible work environments where employees often choose the tool, device and application at their disposal to get the job done. Work is ...

ABC Technology and Games

Don't adjust your sets, it's just normal
Great Lakes Advocate
If so, the new normal is an Australia that has made its adjustment to the carbon tax. On the cusp of being a popular leader ... Julia Gillard.Photo: Andrew Meares. It's one where most Australians don't feel any worse off as a result of the dreaded ...

The button-pushing camp of Ryan Murphy.
New Yorker
The provocateur behind Fox's teen musical “Glee,” FX's bloody melodrama “American Horror Story,” and NBC's gay-parent sitcom “The New Normal,” Murphy currently oversees (along with his creative partner, Brad Falchuk) three shows in three genres on...

New Yorker

Market shifts worry CEOs most
Stuff.co.nz
The New Normal survey, just published by law firm Kensington Swan and Auckland University's business school, measured the top-rated issues and challenges of 265 chief executives, including 135 respondents from the private sector. While over one third ...

The new Normal: post-merge Survivor without the predictable ...
Another remarkable episode of Survivor Philippines, but this time it was internal rather than external chaos. That is, while last week's episode concluded with a...



Tuesday, November 20, 2012

The New Normal Recap: Unplugged

The New Normal' Recap: 'Unplugged'
TheCelebrityCafe.com
The thought of not having access to my iPhone for a whole 24 hours makes me cringe and The New Normal perfectly portrayed this dependence on technology in this week's episode. When Bryan, David, Goldie and Shania sit down for a meal together, their ...

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The Latino Vote: "The New Normal"
Huffington Post (blog)
Since election night, one topic of immense interest to me has dominated the news cycle: the impact of the Latino vote on the 2012 election. After years of being treated as one of the best-kept secrets in politics, the need to reach out to Latino voters ...

Croaking: Science's New Normal?
TheTyee.ca
This litany added up to the scary phrase "New Normal" bandied at every coffee break: in other words, that these were no longer ephemeral or stand-alone issues, but a merger of ongoing problems accelerating rapidly to an unknowable end game.

1% ... The New Normal Growth Rate?
IndexUniverse.com
In 1981 David Stockman, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget for newly elected President Ronald Reagan, published a budget using such an optimistic set of assumptions that it was derisively nicknamed Rosy Scenario. In Stockman's 1986 ...

Andrew Cuomo warns: Extreme weather is the new normal
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Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Nov 16, 2012 by Charlie Spiering. Andrew Cuomo warns: Extreme weather is the new normal. Text here: http://washingtonexaminer.com/andrew-cuomo-warns-extreme-weather-is-the-new-n.

We might be living in the least disruptive age in history (Wired UK): ""The world is moving faster than ever before. Everything is being disrupted, including that thing you do. So you're going to have to tear it up. And you're going to have to keep on tearing it up. If you stop, even for a second, you will die." If you've ever sat through a consultant's presentation, including *cough* many of mine, or leafed through a copy of the Harvard Business Review or Wired then you've heard a spiel like this. The audience sits up. Yes, the world is accelerating so fast we can't think! So much new stuff to deal with! We are so special to live in such an exceptional time! Tell us how to cope!"

Halifax International Security Forum: The new international normal
rabble.ca (blog)
The first plenary session of the Halifax International Security Forum is called "What is the new normal and when will it get here?" It features panelists Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Paula Dobriansky from the Belfer ...

rabble.ca (blog)

Reba McEntire and Lily Tomlin Talk "Malibu Country"
AfterElton.com
... Justin Prentice, Juliette Angelo & Jai Rodriguez). With sitcoms featuring major gay characters like NBC's The New Normal and CBS's Partners creating various levels of buzz earlier this fall, ABC recently entered the fray with the new sitcom Malibu ...

AfterElton.com

From 'The Mindy Project' to 'The Neighbors,' hits and misses jump out among ...
Plain Dealer (blog)
NBC decided its two best new comedies, "Go On" and "The New Normal," deserved to be around for at least an entire season. Of the two, "Go On" remains more consistently funny, with Matthew Perry shining as a radio sportscaster ordered to join a therapy ...

Plain Dealer (blog)

It's a Rap: Nene Leaks; Game; Ms. Chief; Hip Hop celebrated
Lasentinel
“It wasn't cool to me at all,” NeNe said while promoting her current NBC series “The New Normal.” According to MediaTakeOut, the reality show maven and one-time “Celebrity Apprentice” contestant made $1 million last season ($750,000 total for the ...

Bond ETFs to fall if rates rise
Financial Post (blog)
In the new normal, debt continues to pile up to the heavens, and yet interest rates keep plummeting. Governments issue vast and expanding amounts of debt, only to have their central banks subsequently buy equally large amounts of the very same bonds in ...

Financial Post (blog)



Monday, November 19, 2012

Weak growth and high inflation is the new normal

Weak growth and high inflation is the 'new normal'
Telegraph.co.uk
In my view, the UK and many other Western economies are now in a “new normal” economy, where economic growth is likely to continue to be weak and inflation will remain relatively high and volatile. This economic environment is being shaped by three...

Telegraph.co.uk

'The New Normal' sticking around?
StandardNet
As for the quality of “The New Normal,” it can be a bit of a disjointed muddle. Sometimes the show is hilarious in its political incorrectness; other times it strikes an overly strident tone. But of all the new shows this fall, “The New Normal” is ...

StandardNet

The 'new normal' Climate-change issues costing Ja billions
Jamaica Gleaner
"We all know the difficulties in attributing any single storm to climate change. But we also know this: extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal," declared United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy's ...

Jamaica Gleaner

`Glee' producer Ryan Murphy to honor Norman Lear
Macon Telegraph (blog)
"I try to do the same in my work, most recently with the 'Obama Mama' episode of 'The New Normal,' which was inspired by 'All in the Family.'" In that Sept. 25 episode of his new NBC sitcom, about a gay male couple and the surrogate hired to carry ...

High definition the 'new normal' for television viewers, says Yahlive
AME Info
High Definition television (HDTV) is establishing itself as the 'new normal' for viewers across the Middle East and north Africa, according to YahLive, the High Definition (HD) television satellite platform for the MENA region. Speaking at the ...

Don't adjust your sets, it's just normal
Sydney Morning Herald
While it's too soon to be definitive, today's poll does suggest that the Gillard government's recovery of the past six months has run its course. If so, the new normal is an Australia that has made its adjustment to the carbon tax. It's one where most ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Tulane president: Katrina taught New Orleans not just to rebuild, but to reimagine
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
Chris Christie recently said, you have to come to terms with "a new normal." The familiar fabric is gone: whole neighborhoods reduced to rubble, landmarks swept away, mud and debris everywhere. So what else did we learn? One urgent truth: Many major...

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)

Chris Christie says New Jersey receives the smallest return of any state on ...
PolitiFact
Why the effort, if this is the new normal?" "Well, listen, it's fair to ask it but I have the answer," Christie said during the Oct. 30 interview. "The answer is that for New Jersey, which gives so much to this country -- by the way, 50th in return of ...

Leaders in the storm
Danbury News Times
For the new normal for weather -- three destructive storms in the span of 14 months -- has redefined what towns have to do in the face of calamity. Dealing with a natural disaster in their communities can test the mettle of elected leaders. And it's ...



Saturday, November 17, 2012

New Normal Pushes Wal-Mart's Black Friday Right into Your Thanksgiving Dinner

New Normal Pushes Wal-Mart's Black Friday Right into Your Thanksgiving Dinner
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Wal-Mart shares are down today after a generally disappointing earnings report, and while the retailer is upbeat on the holiday season, that obviously isn't resonating with the (stock) buying public today. Wal-Mart, along with Target, and Sears, are ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

3 percent pay raise the 'new normal' for 2013
NBCNews.com (blog)
Three percent raises are the new normal, says Ravin Jesuthasan, a compensation expert and managing director with management consultant Towers Watson. “I don't think anyone should expect merit increases to deviate that much going forward, even if the ...

'Glee,' 'The New Normal,' 'X Factor' among People's Choice Award nominees
Examiner.com
Nominations for the 2013 People's Choice Awards have been revealed with "Glee," "TheNew Normal," "Steve Harvey" and "X Factor USA" among the list of nominees. Announced Thursday, nominations also went to recording artists like Chris Brown, Britney ...

Examiner.com

Is Hurricane Sandy "The New Normal?"
KDLT News
We have all heard the politicians screaming that this is “the new normal” and that climate change will ultimately affect all of our lives more and more in the years to come. There is no denying that this could be true, but what you may not have heard ...

KDLT News

Jersey Shore's new normal - cliff shows just how high the tide came up
IrishCentral (blog)
Our governor here in Jersey is calling this time after Hurricane Sandy “the new normal.” I have no bloody idea what that means exactly but it sounds good. In my head, we are always experiencing a “new normal.” Our normal in the days after September 11, ...

IrishCentral (blog)

Conference: Rising Hudson River waters a 'new normal'
The Journal News | LoHud.com
PEEKSKILL — The new normal, according to Scenic Hudson's Sacha Spector, includes a rising Hudson River that's already a foot higher than it was a century ago and is ready to be whipped to a froth by storms delivering increasingly powerful wallops.

The New Normal Has Capacity Utilization Rates Still at Recessionary Levels
24/7 Wall St.
Today's report from the Fed on industrial production and capacity utilization for October is yet another report that is marred by the impact of the hurricane hitting at the end of the month. Let's at least hope that the storm affected the report ...

The Coin Analyst: Are Low Mintage Collector Coins the New Normal ?
CoinWeek (blog)
us army half dollar The Coin Analyst: Are Low Mintage Collector Coins the New Normal With respect to the new spouse keys, I wrote recently about an article in the PCGS e-newsletter that speculated as to whether cancellations of last-minute orders for ...
 
CoinWeek (blog)

Environmental Group: Hudson River Flooding, The New Normal
The Daily Voice
Environmental Group: Hudson River Flooding, The New Normal. Recommend. by Art Cusano News 6 hours ago Comment. Sacha Spector of Scenic Hudson was among the presenters at Thursday's seminar in Peekskill. Photo Credit: Art Cusano. Share; Print ...

Andrew Cuomo warns: Extreme weather is the 'new normal'
Washington Examiner
During a press conference this afternoon with President Obama, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned New Yorkers that “extreme weather, as we have learned, is the new normal.” Cuomo explained that in spite of the devastation caused by Hurricane ...

Oh No They Didn't! - THE NEW NORMAL POST
By CRICKET IS BACK BETCHES!
Shannen Doherty to guest star Shannen Doherty (Charmed, Beverly Hills 90210) has been tapped for an upcoming episode of NBC's freshman comedy The New Normal. The actress posted a picture of herself with Andrew Rannells on ...
Oh No They Didn't!

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