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Fed Data Cruncher Finds No New Normal Unemployment Bloomberg For one thing, the Fed underestimates the strength of structural forces pulling the economy back to a new normal, so there is greater risk of building up too much liquidity and unleashing an accidental burst of inflation.” The further the Fed estimates ...

Maxwell: Public education needs a Goldilocks moment ScrippsNews I learned about the movement's growth in "The New Normal of Teacher Education," an article by Arthur Levine in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and former ...

The new normal Fayetteville Observer (blog) After all, perspective was in short supply when my son was convulsing in my arms on July 4. But as frightening as that was, it appears we must brace ourselves for the possibility of more of the same, at least for the next three years. ...

Redefining consumption in the new normal QFINANCE.com (blog) These thoughts on future consumption and consumer behaviours were prompted by Jason Hsu's piece, 'The 3D Hurricane and the New Normal', cited in John Mauldin's 28 June 2011 “Out the Box” missive – itself perhaps the most potent-free source or portal to ...

Unemployment? Who Cares? New York Times (blog) By NANCY FOLBRE High unemployment has become the new normal. Two years after the official end of the recession, the monthly refrain of poor jobs reports showing an unemployment rate stalled at about 9 percent does little to increase any sense of ...

Wetter, warmer weather The Seattle Times I would like to express my disappointment with the article “Our new 'normal': wetter and warmer” in the July 8 issue [page one]. The Times seems unwilling to correlate the changing weather patterns this new National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

June's Abysmal Jobs Report is Just the Beginning Money Morning By Kerri Shannon, Associate Editor, Money Morning After just a few months of modest, stimulus-induced improvement the jobs market is again sliding backwards into a "new normal" characterized by even higher rates of unemployment. ...

4 Ways to Regain Control of Your Identity in the Workplace Forbes (blog) In today's new normal, people want to be part of a workplace culture that allows them to be their natural, authentic self. An identity that supports their own personal reinvention efforts to be more purposeful, responsible and accountable in the ...

Sales teams feel pinch of short booking windows Hotel News Now REPORT FROM THE US—Despite relief from improving performance fundamentals, the average booking window for meetings in the US hotel industry is as short as ever, leaving sales executives to cope with the stark realities of the new normal. ...

Are We Stuck With Low Growth Forever? Seeking Alpha The point I want to make is that the "it's all explained by a new normal" story adopts the conservative point of view that variation in output is mostly due to supply shocks rather than fluctuation in demand. In this case, there's little room for ...