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Green Shoots

What Will an Economic Recovery Build Upon?

Garrett Johnson | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Price Increases, Housing Numbers, Foreign Trade, Fiscal Health, Green Shoots, Economic Recovery, Consumer Spending, Recession, Reinflating the Housing Bubble, Housing Bubble, Fundamentals of the Economy, Business News
Garrett Johnson

The economy: Has it bottomed? Are we recovering? Will we see a "V" shaped bounce? Or a "U"? Or a "W"? Let's examine exactly what is going to lead this economy out of our deep recession.

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Ouch! Recession, Part 11

Dan Dorfman | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Consumption, Nouriel Roubini, Stock Market, Economic Crisis, J.C Spender, Green Shoots, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Recession, Jeffrey Immelt, Jim Rogers, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Several prominent economic voices are now calling for a double-dip recession -- an end to the current one, a recovery of sorts and then a slide back into another recession.

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Smoking the Green Shoots

Robert Kuttner | Posted 08.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Downdrafts, Goldman Sachs, Green Shoots, Gdp, Recovery Bonds, Recession, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Robert Kuttner

The fevered activity at Goldman is a sign of lingering economic illness, not economic health. With purchasing power still declining and unemployment still rising, where will the recovery come from?

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Obama's Economic Crisis Team is Full of Green Shoots

Sheldon Filger | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Economic Policy, Larry Summers, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Green Shoots, Federal Reserve, Economic Crisis, Mohamed El-Erian, Pimco, Business News
Sheldon Filger

Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke may go down in history as the three horsemen of the global financial and economic apocalypse

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Economic Recovery, the Weight Watchers Way

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Green Shoots, CBS Early Show, Weight Loss, Harry Smith, Economic Recovery, Business News
Jill Schlesinger

We need the Weight Watchers approach, not a crash diet. If the recovery occurs too quickly, people and institutions may return to their old, bad habits.

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Half-Time Economic Update: Are You Smoking Green Shoots?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Banking, US Economy, Manufacturing, Green Shoots, Housing Market, Unemployment, Stock Market, Business News
Jill Schlesinger

Avoiding financial calamity is a good thing and it does appear that the global economy is past the worst point in the cycle, but a self-sustained recovery is not necessarily in the bag.

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Roubini: The Green Shoots Are Mostly Yellow Weeds

RGE | Posted 08.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Unemployment, Nouriel Roubini, Green Shoots, Roubini Shoots Weeds, Business News

The June employment report suggests that the alleged 'green shoots' are mostly yellow weeds that may eventually turn into brown manure. The employment...

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Warren Buffet On Economy: 'We've Had No Bounce' (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Fed Chairman, Warren Buffett, Ben Bernanke, Green Shoots, Recession, Business News

In an interview with CNBC this week, legendary investor Warren Buffett offered a rather grim assessment of the economy. In other words, forget all the...

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Plastic Green Shoots

Michael Pento | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Investing, Green Shoots, Gdp, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News
Michael Pento

What we are experiencing is just an artificially derived respite -- we have only entered the eye of our debt induced hurricane.

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Three Not-So-Optimistic Economists (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Nouriel Roubini, Paul Samuelson, Economic Optimism, Green Shoots, Paul Krugman, Business News

By now, you've probably heard of the much-ballyhooed "green shoots" in the economy. On Friday, the Dow actually closed positive for 2009, leading some...

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Ignore the Scaremongers - Watch out for the Truly Scary

Ann Pettifor | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment Numbers, Job Losses, Debt, Bankruptcy, Consumer Debt, Unemployment, Investment, Banker's Recession, Government Spending, Green Shoots, Recession, Ben Bernanke, Credit Crisis, Borrowing, Interest Rates, James Bond Markets, Business News
Ann Pettifor

Economists and their friends in bond markets are scaremongering in the hope of achieving cuts in government programs, rises in unemployment and lower wages. This is lunacy parading as economics.

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Don't Call It a Comeback

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Confidence, Unemployment, Durable Goods, Foreclosures, Baseline Scenario, Green Shoots, Housing, Paul Krugman, Vox EU, Tyler Cowen, Wall Street Journal, Stocks, Great Depression, Economy, Inventories, Business News
Harry Moroz

This rather overwhelming response to the first "green shoots" of the economic crisis suggests that we've reached a significant, even threshold, moment that policymakers must utilize.

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