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Selling Starts, Recession Ends!

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Sell to Survive, Sales Training, Unemployment, Gdp, Grant Cardone, Recession, Great Recession, Economy, Business News
Grant Cardone

The so-called Great Recession, the longest and deepest since the Great Depression, may be over but you won't feel relief unless you and your company are able to sell your products and services.

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The Feds Have No Faith in Recovery

Michael Pento | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Stagflation, Financial Crisis, Depression, Gdp, Economic Stimulus Package, Recession, Financial Recovery, Business News
Michael Pento

The cyclical bull market in stocks and positive print on GDP has caused some on Wall Street and in D.C. to claim the recession has ended. A closer look indicates that neither believes its own rhetoric.

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Selling Panic Could Rock Stocks

Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Economic Slowdown, Obama Stock Market, Economic Downturn, Gdp-Growth, Gdp, A. Silver Associates, Stock Market, Stock Market Rebound, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Go figure this crazy market following another bout of schizophrenia. First came terrific Thursday, then wicked Friday, as big money was made and even bigger money was lost.

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A Year Later -- My Clarion Call to America Left Unanswered

Lynn Tilton | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Small Business, Lynn Tilton, Economy, Economic Crisis, Wall Street, Clarion Call, Recession, Main Street, Obama, Gdp, Job Creation, Meritocracy, Obama Administration, Business News
Lynn Tilton

We are living in interesting times and the road to resurgence will be long and fraught with obstacles. The path to economic recovery begins with truth.

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Lies, Statistics and Economic Statistics

Michael Brenner | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Unemployment, Gdp, Cost of Living, Great Recession, Recession, Economic Crisis, Business News
Michael Brenner

Here is a quick everyman's guide to economic statistics. Making sense of the figures demands a large measure of skepticism and an eye for misrepresentation and forgery.

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'Third Quarter Growth' and Other Things That Mean Nothing To You

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Goldman Sachs, Joseph Stiglitz, Economic Recession, Economy, Economic Crisis, Recession Fears, New York Times, Gdp, Gross Domestic Product, Recession, Business News
Allison Kilkenny

If life still sucks for you: you're still unemployed, depressed, broke, homeless, or scraping by on food stamps, don't worry. You're not alone.

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An In-Depth Look at the GDP Report

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Personal Consumption Expenditures, GDP Report, Imports, Gdp, Investment, Durable Goods, Cash for Clunkers, Consumption, Business News
Hale

The long awaited GDP report is out. Notice it wasn't just durable goods that saw increases: non-durable goods and services also increased. And not by small amounts.

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Main Street Lags Far Behind Wall Street In Recession Recovery

BusinessWeek | Moira Herbst | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Gdp, Unemployment, Gluskin Sheff, Wall Street, Lagging Indicators, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Leading Indicators, Main Street, David Rosenberg, ABC News/Washington Post Poll, Gross Domestic Product, Recession, Business News

On the one hand, the Dow Jones industrial average once again danced around 10,000 last week. If U.S. gross domestic product rebounds as expected on Oc...

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Bloomberg: US GDP Probably Grew 3.2% As Stimulus Took Hold

Bloomberg | Timothy R. Homan | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Recovery, Car Sales, Durable Goods, Gdp, Economy, Cash for Clunkers, Commerce Department, Manufacturing, Economic Growth, Wall Street, Recession, Home Sales, Business News

The economy in the U.S. probably grew in the third quarter at the fastest pace in two years as government stimulus helped bring an end to the worst re...

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Next Stop: Inflation

James Berman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Gdx, Depression, Gdp, Deflation, Federal Reserve, Fed, Cpi, Bernanke, Tips, Gold, Monetary Policy, Rising Inflation, Recession, Inlfation, Business News
James Berman

The market has had the biggest six month rally since the 1930s and stocks cannot go up forever. We can't time the sell-off, but we can prepare for one of its likely causes: inflation.

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U.S. GDP Falls AT 0.7 Percent Pace In 2Q

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 10.01.2009 | Business

Read More: 2Q GDP, Economy, Economic Growth, U.S. GDP, Gdp, Gross Domestic Product, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON — The economy shrank less than expected in the second quarter as businesses and consumers trimmed their spending at a slower pace, buttressing beliefs that the economy is now growing.

The 0.7 percent dip in gross domestic product for the April-June quarter follows the 6.4 percent annualized drop in the first three months of this year, the worst slide in nearly three decades. In the final quarter of last year, the economy sank at a rate of 5.4 percent

The new reading on second-quarter GDP, reported by the Commerce Department on Wednesday, shows the economy shrinking less than the 1 percent pace previously estimated. It also was better than the annualized 1.1 percent drop that economists were predicting.

The final revision of second-quarter GDP comes on the last day of the third quarter, in which many analysts predict the economy started growing again at a pace of about 3 percent.

"Growth should be solidly positive," said Mark Vitner, economist at Wells Fargo Securities.

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JdV > GDP? Sarkozy Stimulates Sarcasm

Chip Conley | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Success, Gdp, Nicolas Sarkozy, France Happiness Index, France Joy, Sarkozy, Joie-De-Vivre, France, France Happiness, Happiness, Business News
Chip Conley

Since his economists have suggested France adopt a "Joie de Vivre" index, Sarkozy has started sounding like a leftist -- or at least someone who spends too much time reading Sartre in Left Bank cafes.

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Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Vision, in Need of Corrective Lenses

Frankie Sturm | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: American-Decline, Economics, Foreign Affairs, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Neoconservatism, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Gdp, National Security, Neocons, National Intelligence Council, President Obama Administration, Neoconservatives, Neo-Conservatives, American Decline, Politics News
Frankie Sturm

The fact that economies in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere have grown since 1945 is not a sign of American decline. It's a testament to US leadership.

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Consumer Spending: What If Americans Dont' Start Buying Again?

nytimes.com | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Spending, Economy, Consumers, Gdp, Consumption, g20, Recession, Business News

If Americans don't start buying a lot of stuff again, can the world economy be saved? What's the global Plan B? These are fundamental questions at the...

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Stiglitz, Amartya Sen: GDP A Poor Measure Of Growth

nytimes.com | PETER S. GOODMAN | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Gdp, Economic-Growth, Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, New Growth Theory, Nicolas Sarkozy, Business News

In a provocative new study, a pair of Nobel prize-winning economists, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, urge the adoption of new assessment tools th...

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GDP an Inaccurate Measure of Stark Disparities in United States, Fails to Show Whole Picture in Louisiana

Sarah Burd-Sharps | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Gdp, Louisiana, New Orleans-Louisiana, New Orleans Housing, Rebuilding New Orleans, Politics News
Sarah Burd-Sharps

Recovery funds must be directed not just to rebuild the physical infrastructure of Louisiana, but also to construct a new infrastructure of opportunity to serve the next generation of Gulf coast residents.

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Measuring Measurements: Rising GDP in the Great Recession

Harry Moroz | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Statistics, Free Market, Harper's, Gdp, Ayn Rand, Economy, Economic Recession, Recession, Business News
Harry Moroz

It is so easy in our current political environment to forget that GDP, the unemployment rate, the income tax burden -- a whole slew of measurements -- are freighted with judgments.

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Japan Breaks Out of U.S. Orbit

Diane Francis | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Gdp, Japanese Elections, Obama, U.S., Japanese Economy, Asia, Japan, China, Yukio Hatoyama, Djp, Liberal Democratic Party, World News
Diane Francis

The transfer of power in Japan marks a desire on the part of many Japanese voters to move toward Asia and out from under the West's sphere of influence.

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Technology Rx for Health Care Reform

Gary Shapiro | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Ipod, Consumer-Electronics-Association, President Obama, Motorola, Intel, Gary Shapiro, Congress, Innovation, Best Buy, Competition, Apple, Living Wills, Hdtv, Texas Instruments, Free Market, Cea, Gdp, Technology, Health Care, Hp, Healthcare, Business News
Gary Shapiro

The consumer electronics industry is defined by rapid innovation and falling prices. Advocates on every side should consider these market-based lessons, as they are relevant to the current health care debate.

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The "Fits and Starts" Recovery

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Economic Recovery, Gdp, Economic Growth, Financial Bailout, Recession, Business News
Hale

At the beginning of the year GDP was dropping and we were bleeding jobs at 600,000/month. Given that, we're not going to rebound to a 3% growth rate in a few months; it's just not going to happen.

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Nouriel Roubini: How We Can Escape The Spend-And-Borrow Economy

forbes.com | Nouriel Roubini | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, Deficit, Nouriel Roubini, Gdp, Spend-and-Borrow-Economy, Business News

In the last few months the world economy has been saved from a near-depression. That feat has been achieved by a range of extraordinary government sti...

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GDP Declines 1 Percent In 2Q, Better Than Expected

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobless Numbers, White House, Benefit Claims, Unemployment Rate, First-Time Jobless, Economy, Labor Department, Economic Crisis, Commerce Department, Recession, Gross Domestic Product, Unemployment Numbers, Economists, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Wall Street, Christina Romer, Jobs Report, Gdp, Business News

WASHINGTON — Further evidence the recession is ending came in a report Thursday confirming that the economy shrank at an annual rate of just 1 p...

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What the Hell Is a Jobless "Recovery?"

Daniel Denvir | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Bernanke, Recovery, Economic Recovery, Unemployment, Gdp, Jobless Recovery, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Politics News
Daniel Denvir

The government, media and establishment economists are measuring recovery by the GDP and stock prices, the same measures used to qualify our previous bubbles as reflecting real economic well-being.

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Why Republicans Should Back Health Care Cost Remedies

Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Congress, Gdp, Social Security, Federal Budget Deficit, Conservatives, Budget, Gop, Marxism, Medicare, Health Care, Fiscal Responsibility, Veterans, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

Socialization of risk, a risk pool, is the very business model of private insurance for profit -- and government is simply the largest risk pool of all.

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More Signs of an Economic Bottom Emerge

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Jobs, Economic Recovery, Gdp, Unemployment, Economic Recession, Recession, Business News
Hale

We're not talking about one country; we're seeing data emerge from a variety of countries on a variety of continents that growth is returning. We have strong reason to believe the worst is over.

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