Your employer is giving modest raises again after a recession-era 5-year freeze on salaries.
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The political stalemate is delaying reforms that could help revive Italy's recession-hit, debt-laden economy.
And the new look, which mixes Baccarat with ready-to-wear and machine-washable bric-a-brac, offers recession-friendly shopping opportunities.
After two-and-a-half years of flatlining and a double-dip recession the IMF is now clearly losing patience.
Nonetheless, snagging a recession-proof government job--where layoffs are scarce--is a time-honored strategy during a downturn.
One in three executives and one in five dustmen think it will be a recession-flirting 0-2.5%.
The whole 17-nation eurozone is in recession again - led by fast-shrinking economies such as Greece.
They must be able to suffer through further mark-to-market losses, and not have recession-sensitive jobs or businesses.
Like other wholesale chains, BJ's Wholesale Club experienced a recession-based boost as cost-conscious consumers sought out cheap prices.
It took the collapse of Lehman's investment bank and a world recession - a year later - to demonstrate that.
After taking a slight pause in recession-spooked 2009, arms-transfer agreements with the developing world should resume their years-long rise in 2010.
The bank sees a one-in-three chance of recession between now and mid-2013.
Big questions hovered: Would the 2003 wines be even more expensive than the sticker-shock 2000s, and if so, would a weak-dollar, recession-dogged public pay for them?
You might be skeptical of the date--it hinges on the assumption that the next 12 years will be recession-free--but the eventual outcome now seems inevitable.
And long before this recession hit -- for a decade -- middle-class families had already been expensing -- experiencing a sense of declining economic security.
In my longer-and-deeper-recession scenario, the market carries an additional 10% risk.
The Fed has restored family wealth to its pre-recession high-water mark and individual and institutional debt-equity ratios still rest too heavy in the fixed income sector.
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The same is true for the Washington, DC, area, where an all-but-recession-proof economy based on the federal government has already managed a return to pre-downturn output levels.
The Alan Greenspan recession-o-meter also moved in the wrong direction.
The unemployment rate has dropped more than 40% of the way back to its pre-recession level, but the employment-to-population ratio is closer to its trough than its pre-recession peak.
Add on top of that the recession -- the Great Recession, the near depression -- and you had a set of circumstances that had a negative impact on our deficit.
He criticised the focus on talk of a "double-dip" and "triple-dip" recession - defined by the economy contracting in two consecutive quarters - saying the longer-term trend was more important.
We have -- when we have administrative support at all, which is increasingly rare in the post-recession hyper-productive economy -- administrative assistants, executive assistants or (if you're a celebrity) personal assistants.
The story here is also not awe-inspiring, but since spiking in the aftermath of the horrific 1998-99 debt default and recession-within-depression, there has been a steady downward tick in the crude death rate.
This would mean countries would be allowed to run bigger deficits in a recession - helping the recovery - but would have to keep a tighter control of spending during the boom years.
Diversity has probably helped: besides its traditional strengths in electronics and software development, Cambridge has a healthy (and relatively recession-proof) medical-technology sector, and has branched out into biotechnology over the past couple of decades.
However, interestingly, there is no evidence that more private-equity-owned companies went bust in the great recession of 2008-9 than other kinds of firms - although there is plenty of evidence of private-equity-owned companies with large debts feeling very vulnerable.
While cyclical IT budgeting factors are likely at work, we also believe that the BI market has matured after a post-recession and post-consolidation growth phase and that enterprise attention has turned to new data processing and analytics technologies.
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These advances, as well as a government subsidized, reduced working hour scheme, help explain the relatively modest increase in unemployment during the 2008-09 recession - the deepest since World War II - and its decrease to 6.0% in 2011.
In the last recession - the 2000-2001 recession - which the nation is still just struggling to get out of - we see that states are still not repairing the damage that they have done with regard to university budgets.
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