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From Bad--to Worse?(unemployment)(global recession)(Brief Article)

Newsweek International

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The startling jump in U.S. unemployment has jolted stock markets and Finance ministries around the world. Economists no longer mutter merely about global recession. With all big economies now sagging, the D word is creeping into the lexicons of anxiety.

A synchronized sink like this hasn't occurred since the oil shocks of the 1970s. This time the chief causes are the bursting bubbles of high tech and the global stock-market bust. Officials everywhere have been banking on America to resume its accustomed role as global locomotive. U.S. production had slid from a dazzling 5 percent growth rate a year ago to a dismal 0.2 percent this spring. But employment and consumer spending remained solid, sustaining hopes for a recovery by autumn. Now, it's in doubt. The United States lost a million jobs in August, pushing unemployment from 4.5 to 4.9 percent--one whole point within a year, which has ...

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