The rise in productivity and wages is a great boon for workers in high-productivity jobs.
The Great Recession saw a sharp rise in depression rates and the reality of being underemployed or unemployed has been shown to have both short-term and long-term health consequences.
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Indeed, given the speed of the rise in value it looks a great deal more like a bubble: something that private currencies and unregulated financial markets are prone too, as we know.
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And now marketers, retailers and businesses are realizing there is a promise of something great in its application: the rise of geo-marketing, geo-social marketing and loyalty marketing.
The eminent historian Paul Kennedy wrote a book entitled The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in which he argued that powerful countries typically undercut their economic strength by trying to control too much territory, leading to their decline.
Given the low interest rate environment in the U.S., the U.S. dollar has been weak against other foreign currencies in recent years, which, in addition to the other factors previously discussed, has helped fuel a rise in the price of gold since the great market meltdown of 2008.
Meanwhile, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to face a great increase in the demand for teachers due to the steady rise in the number of pupils.
Goldman had a pretty good quarter: a 7.2% rise in profit, higher revenue and great investment-banking results.
Then too, Turkey's rise in prominence in the US in the 1990s owed a great deal to its close strategic ties with Israel.
In an interwar Britain convulsed by a fresh set of shocks - the great depression, mass unemployment, the rise of fascism in Europe - it's hardly surprising that readers looked on such places as a nostalgic reminder of an apparently simpler time before August 1914.
Some designers say the sprawling closets are in part a reaction to the rise of modern, open floor plans, particularly loftlike great rooms that include both kitchens and dens.
The rise is too great considering the challenging position the Fed finds themselves in and are now at a level where action must transpire.
David Wondrich, a cocktail expert with a great sense of humor and an amazing drinking pedigree dove right in weaving the history of polar exploration with the rise of cocktail culture at the end of the 19th century, and while he was talking Mr. Lee chipped quietly away at his precious ice blocks, crafting hand-hewn ice cubes for a later use.
Initially, there is great hope that the company will revolutionize the world and that the stock will rise like a meteor, as they did in the 1990s through the tech bubble.
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