News tagged with recessions
Only tax increase can cure Illinois budget woes, study says
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Tax increases are the only solution to a widening budget crisis that a new study says has landed Illinois among the nation's most financially troubled states, a soon-to-be-released report by a team of University of Illinois ...
Where's the next boom? Maybe in 'cleantech'
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet - the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates ...
How to be a good boss in a bad economy
Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When cutbacks are necessary, can a good boss do right by the company's finances and by its staff? Some pain is probably unavoidable, but Stanford management science and engineering Professor Bob Sutton says ...
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Tech investing will be a tougher play in 2010
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Mutual funds that bet exclusively on technology stocks are the star performers of 2009.
What does Wall Street's recovery mean to Main Street?
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average, among the world?s most closely watched stock indexes, closed above the 10,000-point mark last week for the first time since October 2008, a milestone that ...
Consumers don't always equate higher prices with quality
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Cornell study finds that while higher prices may generate a more positive view of products, a higher price tag doesn't mean consumers will necessarily buy them.
Corporations rethinking IT's role in cutting corporate costs, boosting productivity
Oct 05, 2009 |
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The current recession has focused top information technology executives on cost-cutting, but they are not slashing jobs the way they did in previous economic downturns, according to a 2009 benchmark report commissioned by ...
Study: Life and death during the Great Depression
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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The Great Depression had a silver lining: During that hard time, U.S. life expectancy actually increased by 6.2 years, according to a University of Michigan study published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the Na ...
Study says West Midlands bearing brunt of recession and will take longest to recover
Sep 15, 2009 |
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New research by the University of Warwick Institute for Employment Research shows that says West Midlands is bearing brunt of recession in the UK and is the region that will take longest to recover.
The effect of economic recessions on population health
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Paradoxically, mortality rates during economic recessions in developed countries decline rather than increase, according to an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). In poor countries with less than $50 ...
Recession means fewer babies; US births fell 2 pct
Aug 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- There aren't just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too.
Study finds job programs protect public health during periods of recession
Jul 08, 2009 |
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A rapid rise in unemployment can be linked to an increase in suicides, homicides, and alcohol abuse, but job programs can successfully mitigate these rates, according to a new study reported in the "Lancet" medical journa ...
Andreessen making leap from entrepreneur to VC
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Having built and sold two technology startups for a combined $11.7 billion, Marc Andreessen is ready to take a stab at, well, finding the next Marc Andreessen.
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