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Tag: consumer spending

Aug 2
2011

Double Dip Time?

Politics

Signs are pointing to us entering the dreaded double-dip recession: Friday’s news on GDP shows the double dip has arrived — an expansion of only 1.3 percent and consumer spending up 0.1 percent in the second quarter. Astonishingly low by any account. The debt ceiling trouble and lack of a longer term resolution to the […]

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Feb 8
2009
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SimCity For Republicans

Misc

I have never been a big gamer, well except for SimCity. That has been the one game I have been hooked on since it first came out 20 years ago. You are the mayor of a city and you have a budget. You decide where the funds go, and what areas get zoned what. If […]

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Jan 12
2008

I Guess Diamonds Aren't Forever

Misc

More signs that our economy is in trouble. Fears that America’s credit crisis is spilling over to hit consumer spending were fuelled yesterday after Tiffany, the upmarket jeweller, gave warning that sales over the Christmas period had fallen. Shares in Tiffany plunged by more than 10 per cent after it admitted that like-for-like sales during […]

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