And like the movie and video game industry, some makeup stocks have fared much better than others during the great recession.
For this reason, among others, the European recession will be long and tedious.
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Furthermore, while some graduates will be fighting harder for fewer positions in traditional MBA recruitment sectors, others are using the recession as an opportunity to explore ways of using their degree to make a positive contribution to social and environmental causes.
Could proper policy changes, such as the ones listed above, or others suggested by you, end this recession by the spring?
Some boomers need to extend their careers in order to replenish 401(k) plans that were gutted by the recession, while others are seeking to switch into more lucrative professions.
Some may be the predictions of the Congressional Budget Office and others that tumbling off the cliff will throw the economy into recession, or the evident nervousness of financial markets.
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No wonder the company is riding the recession in style while others are challenged, enjoying growth and opening more stores than ever.
If the combination of all these rate increases results in renewed recession, as I and many others believe will happen, the result will be lower rather than higher federal revenues overall.
New numbers coming out of the U.S. Commerce Department reveal that large companies like Texas Instruments, Starbucks, Coca-Cola and others are on the fast track to recovery following the recession, despite polls showing that consumers are still tentative to spend.
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As Exxon Mobil ( XOM) showed during the recession, when it continued to spend as others cut back, the energy giant is focused on the long haul.
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Still others were convinced the economy was already rolling over into its next recession even before the reports this week that consumer confidence plunged in January, and the bigger shock, that GDP growth turned negative in the December quarter, dropping to minus 0.1% compared to the consensus forecast for growth of 1.1%.
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Things slowed down just a bit during the darkest days of the recession, as some customers tightened their IT budgets and others tipped into bankruptcy.
Many have continued to dwell on the main headlines worrying about the prospect of a euro zone break-up, a hard landing in China, or a recession in the U.S., among many others.
In fact, if those tax increases, along with all the other tax rate increases already enacted for next year, cause another recession next year, as I and others think likely unless the rate increases are reversed, the result will be lower rather than higher revenues, and still higher deficits and debt as a result.
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But most importantly, at this time of recession in some areas of the world, of a slowdown in others, the TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership, perhaps represents the greatest potential area of growth in an entire decade.
But like so many others across America, these workers have also been doing the best they can to stay afloat in a brutal recession that has hit folks like them hardest of all.
The recession battered all states' pension funds, but some were less equipped to take it than others.
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