How the Great Recession Curbed America's Love of Driving - The Atlantic Wire

How the Great Recession Curbed America's Love of Driving
The Atlantic Wire
And also during the recession in the early 1980s, spurred in large part by a spike in oil prices following the Iranian Revolution. But that the driving drop-off during the late-2000s recession, associated not with volatility in oil but in finance, ...

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Glass-Steagall Act Repeal Did Not Cause The Great Recession - Seeking Alpha

Glass-Steagall Act Repeal Did Not Cause The Great Recession
Seeking Alpha
The other day, a commenter asked me to explain why I thought the repeal of much of the Glass-Steagall Act by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999 did not contribute significantly to the occurrence of the Great Recession. I had excised that discussion ...

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Making the cap fit for all the Formula One teams - The National


The National
Making the cap fit for all the Formula One teams
The National
Financial instability has been an issue in F1 for many years, but it reached its nadir at the height of the recession in the late 2000s when Honda, Toyota and BMW all felt it necessary to quit the sport. Max Mosley, the former president of the ...

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Betting on an Economic Rebound, Hydraulics Solution Provider Western ... - San Francisco Chronicle (press release)

Betting on an Economic Rebound, Hydraulics Solution Provider Western ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Riverside, CA (PRWEB) May 02, 2012 During the recession of the late-2000s, OEMs like Caterpillar and Sauer Danfoss resorted to cutbacks in inventory and drastic personnel layoffs. At the same time, Western Hydrostatics aggressively invested in both ...

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Making Investments Today for a Competitive Economy Tomorrow - Center For American Progress


Center For American Progress
Making Investments Today for a Competitive Economy Tomorrow
Center For American Progress
The growth rate dropped from 4.4 percent in the 1980s to 1.1 percent in the 2000s prior to the recession. Business investment will only gain and sustain momentum if businesses expect more sales in the future, which can come from stronger demand at home ...

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European operations plague GM's profitability - The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com


The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
European operations plague GM's profitability
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
Europe is in the midst of an economic crisis that many officials have compared to the US'€™ recession in the late-2000s. Unemployment is 10.9 percent in Europe. Ammann would not predict when the company expects Europe to return to profitability.

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Spicy Food Fight: Fukuburger vs. Kalbi Burger - LA Weekly (blog)


LA Weekly (blog)
Spicy Food Fight: Fukuburger vs. Kalbi Burger
LA Weekly (blog)
... there is a popular theory that during South Korea's recession in the mid-to-late 2000's the country's young unemployed masses became especially enamored with a dish called buldak, or "fire chicken," a sauce-covered stir fry that was prepared so hot ...

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China Drives Global Growth for Calcium Carbonate Demand - MarketWatch (press release)

China Drives Global Growth for Calcium Carbonate Demand
MarketWatch (press release)
Growth in PVC demand in industrialised countries was adversely affected by the recession in the construction industry in the late 2000s. Chinese PVC production, however, has risen by an average of 17%py over the last decade and by 2010, ...

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