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Opinion: Can We Afford to Ignore Rising Child Poverty?

(Oct. 19) -- The official arbiters have spoken: The Great Recession ended in the middle of last year. Unfortunately, this decree seems a bit hollow as new evidence of pervasive hardship continues to appear on a daily basis. Take a look at the poverty numbers recently released by the Census Bureau. Almost 44 million...

Opinion: Just How Lousy Is the Economic Recovery?

(Oct. 18) -- It's become conventional wisdom that the country has come through the worst recession since the Great Depression. President Obama has repeatedly made this claim -- during his campaign, just before his inauguration, at a town hall meeting this September, and many times in between. Lots of commentators have as...

Hindenburg Omen Crash Fears Linger Despite Recent Stock Market Rallies

(Oct. 5) -- We should all be in real trouble right now, according to the Hindenburg Omen (HO), the esoteric technical analysis indicator that was tripped in August, spooking some traders and many, many more financial blogs and general-interest media into thinking that another stock market crash was imminent. That's...

Poverty Rate Isn't Only Bad News for US Economy Lately

(Sept. 16) -- As the American economy shows some signs of pulling out of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, a host of dire statistics paints a less-than-rosy fiscal portrait for poor and middle-class citizens. Growing Poverty Rate The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the poverty rate in America...

Why Hasn't the Economy Recovered Yet?

(Sept. 13) -- In the current issue of the New York Review of Books, there's a good primer on the roots of the 2008 economic crises and explanations for its lingering impact by Robin Wells and Paul Krugman. While the United States and Europe have, for now, avoided a Great Depression-like crash and GDP is rising again,...

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Graduation: The Loneliest Day -- A Letter to My Fellow Graduates of the Great Recession

It's supposed to be like your wedding day or the birth of a child: blissful.

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CME Group's Biggest Victim: What the Merc's Tax Breaks Are Doing to the State Budget, and Why It Matters

We're nearly four years into the Great Recession and the suffering it's caused.

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For Wall Street, The Great Recession Continues

It seems the world of finance is still in the throes of its own great recession.

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It's Not a Great Recession

The New York Times and its imitators have taken to calling the economic events since 2007 "The Great Recession."

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Great Recession? Meet The Terrible Recovery

But in some ways, the aftermath is proving just as difficult, especially for those out of work.

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06/01/12 Great Recession: School of hard knocks Source: Utah Business School of hard knocks Published Jun 1, 2012 07:06PM MDT Salt Lake consultant Sean Lee, president and founder of SPL Financial, Inc, says while the economy is showing signs of improvement, says investors should be aware of recession lessons.
04/26/11 Great Recession Source: Salon.com If you really wanted to see Steve in a good mood, your best bet was to follow him to a cheap food source.
02/04/11 the great recession Source: The Spectrum - St. George UT Feb 3, 2011 | Lisa Larson larson@thespectrum.com ... are feeling the pinch of the recession is just one way the wedding industry is make adjustments.
12/01/10 The Great Recession & the Great Depression Source: 3quarksdaily The Great Depression and the Great Recession were both caused by policies derived from nostalgia for the world of the Enlightenment.

Background on great recession

The 2008–2012 global recession, sometimes referred to as the late-2000s recession, Great Recession, the Lesser Depression, or the Long Recession, is a marked global economic decline that began in December 2007 and took a particularly sharp downward turn in September 2008. The global recession affected the entire world economy, with higher detriment in some countries than others.

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