Most of these actions were necessitated by sudden and substantial declines in free cash flow resulting from recession-induced contractions in property cash flows and per-share cash flow dilution caused by the issuances of additional equity.

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The recession has helped to stem the flow of job-seekers across America's southern border.

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Beyond the at-risk names reviewed above, managers say the broad population of leveraged loan issuers is in good shape after 10 successive quarters of muscular cash-flow growth since the recession ended in June 2009.

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Corporate free cash flow has reattained pre-recession levels of 2006 and looks to me much less volatile than in previous business cycles.

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If something triggers the flight of those funds, Mr Bernanke will be called upon to stem the flow without tipping the economy into recession a difficult task, as central bankers in countries like Argentina can attest.

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The rich are not spending as willingly as they were before the recession but they are approaching the height of that cash flow.

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When flow of labor and capital are restricted, as in a recession, everybody gets hurt.

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We need a little more government now, so that we can mitigate the negative effects of the recession, but when the economy improves, then we can turn the governmental spigots back down to a gentler flow.

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