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

By Sophie Egan Jun 01st 2012 - 12:45PM

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

By Elizabeth Parisian May 16th 2012 - 03:27PM

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

By The Huffington Post Apr 25th 2012 - 01:12PM

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

By Robert Kuttner Aug 28th 2011 - 09:09PM

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

By Laurent Belsie Aug 11th 2011 - 04:12AM

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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