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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
- Cheaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As our nation continues to slowly recover from the recession, it is clear some families are doing better than others.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job market improved impressively under Barack Obama's presidency after the Great Recession, when millions of jobs vanished seemingly overnight.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Ohio's working families continue to recover from the worst economic recession in our country's history, we need a president who's committed to growing our economy by lifting up the middle class.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small businesses report their income on individual tax returns. If taxes are raised, they will be less likely to be able to hire new workers and make new capital investments.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.
- Meaning
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- Nov 07, 2020
In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.
- Nov 07, 2020
Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.
- Periods
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.
- Defeated
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
- Should
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.
- Experiencing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
UC Merced is the University of California's newest campus and lies among farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley, 2 1/2 hours east of San Francisco and not far from where I spent most of my childhood. It's a part of California that has suffered deeply from the recession with high unemployment and a skyrocketing home foreclosure rate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The economy has barely recovered from the so-called 'Great Recession', with a 2 percent annual rate of growth since mid-2009. Peak worker wages, business investment, and productivity all occurred around the year 2000.
- Excluded
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- Nov 07, 2020
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flint is a big, industrial city. But when I was growing up, they had the recession, lead in the water, and all this other stuff. The city was really depleted.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lunchroom economic conversations are inevitably graced with at least one statement from an old-timer along the lines of, 'In my day, we walked 10 miles in the snow just to get to the recession.' In fact, the nature of recessions hasn't changed much over the years.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The collapse of the housing bubble sent the world spiraling into recession. The collapse of the energy and commodity bubble threatens to be just as damaging.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is well documented that brands that increase advertising during a recession, when competitors are cutting back, can improve market share and return on investment at lower cost than during good economic times.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Created by Congress as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the CFPB was a direct response to the financial crisis and ensuing Great Recession that began with the subprime mortgage debacle and the unraveling of Lehman Brothers investment bank.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.
- Periods
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The financial crisis and the Great Recession posed the most significant macroeconomic challenges for the United States in a half-century, leaving behind high unemployment and below-target inflation and calling for highly accommodative monetary policies.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.
- Corporate America
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great Recession rocked the foundation of every financial institution, including Johnson Bank. We were struggling, and it was happening under my watch.
- Nov 07, 2020
No one saw the recession coming.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in 'green' companies. As a consequence, uncertainty over policy - particularly over tax and regulatory policy - slowed the recovery.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
- Low
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though the National Bureau of Economic Research deemed the recession to have ended in June 2009, to most Americans, that conclusion seems not to square with reality.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience shows that a recession is never the result of just a few large industries dragging the economy down while the others continue to expand.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession.
- Deficit Reduction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the slow recovery after the Great Recession, inflation was very low, and it took us a while to get it back moving up.
- Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened is we went into a recession beginning in December of 2007 that was the worst since 1929. And it is a very deep hole that we have been struggling to get out of.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see nothing that points to a recession in Germany. But I see considerable long-term tasks ahead of us that have to do with markets regaining confidence in Europe and that have a lot to do with reducing debt.
- Nov 07, 2020