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Show Them the Money.(United States economic conditions)(Brief Article)
Grim, grim, grim. Dashing hopes that the U.S. economy had hit rock bottom, last week's figures confirm that the country is still headed down.
On Wednesday the U.S. economy in the third quarter was reported to have shrunk by 0.4 percent, its first quarterly negative growth in eight years. Then it got worse. The latest unemployment figures, released on Friday: 415,000 jobs were eliminated in October as the jobless rate jumped to 5.4 percent from 4.9 percent in September, the biggest one- month leap since May 1980. The current rate is now the highest the United States has experienced since December 1996. Analysts shrugged off the jobless report because they believe the economy will turn around in 2002, but this hardly consoled the average American. President George W. Bush acknowledged that the news was "not good for America."
Nor was the latest measure of consumer confidence. Spending plunged by 1.8 percent in September, after just a ...
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- Press release article from: M2 Presswire October 30, 2008 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Journal of International Affairs Xenias, Anastasia March 22, 2005 700+ words
...criticizes the unilateral influence of the United States in what he terms "global state economic...economic decision-making. When the United States abandoned the gold standard in 1971...popular among American scholars that the United States is a benign hegemon providing for global...
- United States Economic and Trade Policy in the Middle East.(Legislation And...
- Magazine article from: DISAM Journal Larson, Alan P. March 22, 2004 700+ words
...East, and the substantial efforts the United States is undertaking to respond to that demand...human capital. Indeed, Jordan and the United States have experienced an increase in bilateral...Israeli entities can be exported to the United States tariff free; * The U.S.-Morocco...
- Confidence Game.(United States economic situation)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Foreign Policy Naim, Moises May 1, 2001 700+ words
...beyond traditional remedies to pull the United States out of its economic doldrums. There...it can explain anything." In the United States and other industrialized countries...economic downturn. Certainly, the United States is not Mexico, South Korea, or Poland...
- Government bans beef imports from the United States.(ECONOMIC NEWS IN BRIEF)
- Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter June 28, 2005 700+ words
...effective by the end of this month from the United States as cases of mad cow are still found...government banned imports of meat from the United States but the ban was later lifted after...for the second time this month in the United States. Imports of meat of all kinds of cattle...
- Indonesia cancels beef imports from the United States.(Economic News in...
- Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter January 13, 2004 700+ words
...for 9,000 tons of beef from the United States and turned to Australia and New Zealand...BPOM) on imports of meat from the United States. The agency also bans sales of beef from the United States ordered before the import ban was...
- (Un)balanced growth.(United States economic conditions)
- Magazine article from: Economic Quarterly Hornstein, Andreas September 22, 2004 700+ words
...the late 1800s, real output in the United States has been growing at a steady rate of...real aggregate capital stock of the United States has also been growing at that same...stable over long time periods in the United States and other industrialized countries...
- Indonesia lifts ban on meat import from the United States.(Economic News In...
- Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter June 29, 2004 700+ words
...the ban on import of meat from the United States on Monday after the world animal health...animal husbandry products from the United States followed the discovery of mad cow cases...December last year. Sudradjat said the United States supplies only 25% of meat imported...