There was another side to the story, just as dramatic and not so depressing.
Its hard to wake up during depressing times so wake me up pls.
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It certainly is true that firms as a whole hold lower stocks relative to sales than they did 20 years ago, but stockbuilding seems just as volatile as it was and so just as capable of depressing growth.
Rates so low seem to be depressing the dollar and pushing commodity prices upward, and the central bankers might be expected to try to tighten up their monetary policy if there was any serious signs of inflation or if the economy wasn't seen teetering on the verge of recession.
So, even in these tough and depressing times defined by an economic crisis that will -- yes, will -- have an end, I am pretty excited about the future.
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And don't forget some of those areas are not only seeing slackening demand, but this often happens when housing gets really hot - a lot of builders rushed in to take advantage, so now there's an oversupply depressing prices even further.
So the fourth, most important and most depressing lesson for the great deleveraging is that of realism.
So, the thinking goes, when something depressing happens to a chronically stressed or anxious person, his brain is unable to bounce back by creating new neurons and neuronal circuits signaling better times ahead.
And despite its depressing enumeration of the failure of so many schools, particularly in poorer urban areas, its miserable ending, and the bleakness of its title, the movie also has a message of hope: there are good schools and teachers in America, whose methods could make its education system as good as any in the world if only they were allowed to.
They do so by being sellers in the futures market, depressing futures prices.
So if the urge to deleverage is the new and somewhat depressing (in both senses), deflationary and overwhelming economic reality, the question that follows - and is broadly the one raised by Mr Carney - is whether inflation targeting provides the right kind of stability for this era.
So how can you overcome this nasty little devil of a roadblock and avoid becoming one of those depressing statistics on failure rates of startup businesses?
If UAL files for Chapter 11, as everyone expects, another 110 or so planes, a fifth of the United fleet, will be looking for new users, further depressing prices.
So one way to strengthen the middle class in America is to reform the immigration system so that there is no longer a massive underground economy that exploits a cheap source of labor while depressing wages for everybody else.
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