Economic stagnation may be the “new normal”

To the barricades, British defenders of open markets!
The Economist (blog)
Inside Downing Street, there is much discussion of Tyler Cowen, an American economist who argues that, for many Western workers, economic stagnation may be the “new normal”. Jesse Norman, a Conservative MP whose ideas for reforming capitalism found ...

This Awkward Time
BusinessWeek
Everything “Big” has access to capital, is up-to-their-eyeballs in cash and is managing expenses to Gross and El-Erian's New Normal. There are serious discussions. I have learned things. I have been humbled by the reach of Surveillance, Deux.

Retirement Planning in the New Normal
Fox Business
In November 2007, “Bill” is getting ready to retire. After a severe downturn in his portfolio in 2000, 2001, and 2002, Bill has finally recovered most losses. He is confident that with the $2.5 million 401K he's worked hard to build up, he can retire a ...

Tail Events, Isolation, New Normal
Gold Seek
The new normal is of a caravan file of broken cars and trucks sputtering down the road, using the false fuel of hyper monetary inflation and the offensive paint of phony financial accounting, the tell-tale sign being the ugly rancid smoke out of their ...

Gold Seek

Raid that freed Somalia hostages could be military's new normal
Stars and Stripes
Undated images provided by the Danish Refugee Council show Dane Poul Hagen Thisted, left, and American Jessica Buchanan, who were rescued from Somali pirates by US forces. US Special Operations forces rescued an American hostage and her Danish ...

Stars and Stripes

Farmers adjust to new weather norm
Agri News
January temperatures are 2.2 degrees warmer under the new normal, with April, September, November and December all a degree or more warmer warmer with the new normal. The greatest increase in precipitation comes in June and September, up 0.47 inches ...

Opinion Briefing: New Normal Unclear for US, Pakistan
Gallup.com (blog)
Policy Implications: The US and Pakistan have a long way to go before they can establish a "new normal" in relations and as Nuland said, "get back to the full range of business together." A full reset is likely impossible before the next US ...

US Fourth Quarter Bank Earnings: Thankfully Not The New Normal
NASDAQ
All that leads analysts to ask, what of what we saw in 2011 will be the new normal? I believe that that is too pessimistic a view. Tentative US economic growth manifested itself in a pick-up in commercial lending activity for small and medium sized ...

NO SUCH THING AS Normal [Mortgage Banking]
Insurance News Net (press release)
But for there to be a new normal would imply that there was an old normal. * With continuous changes in the supply of capital, demand for capital, space needs, construction and many other key market drivers, it seems fair to say there is no such thing ...

Can Hedge Fund Managers Master Market Volatility?
Advanced Trading
Volatile markets are the new normal. But while some thrill-seeking hedge fund managers are enjoying the wild ride, others can't wait for it to end. By Phil Albinus Since the Arab Spring turned into the Euro Summer, the capital markets have been on a ...

4 Govs At DC Conference
Governors Journal
By GoJo Staff on January 26, 2012 The first topic covered by the two day conference will be the state of the economy and how “the new normal” is impacting state and local governments. David Walker, the former comptroller general of the United States ...

Governors Journal

League of Women Voters of Wayland presents forum on water
Wicked Local
Janot Mendler de Suarez, co-chair of the Global Oceans Forum working group on Oceans & Climate, has been a research consultant with Oxfam America on “Volatility: The New Normal?”She will speak on global water concerns as the context for Wayland's own ...

Recommended: New climate controversy? US map shows warmer planting conditions
msnbc.com
"At a time when the 'normal' climate has become a moving target, this revision of the hardiness zone map gives us a clear picture of the 'new normal,' and will be an essential tool for gardeners, farmers, and natural resource managers as they begin to ...

Verdi's Fearsome Hun, With Destruction Writ Large in Neon Green
New York Times
The recession may have left in its wake a “new normal” of lower donations and more selective ticket buying. But that must not keep opera companies from leading audiences in new directions. “Attila” continues through Saturday at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall ...

New York Times

Celestica Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011 Financial Results
MarketWatch (press release)
Celestica announced expected launch of share repurchase plan Celestica has announced its expectation to file with the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), a notice of intention to commence a new Normal Course Issuer Bid (NCIB). Subject to the acceptance of ...

Bakery Trends Show Balance Between Delight and Lite
Food Processing
"A new normal may be just around the corner where product developers start with the goal of producing a delicious lower-calorie and healthier product, even though the product will not necessarily be labeled as low or reduced fat," says Janelle Litel, ...

Housing Help Will Run Up Against Lending Standards
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Any expanded policy actions, however, will run up against a formidable obstacle: the New Normal in the mortgage process. Lax lending practices fueled the housing boom and created the wave of subprime mortgages that then imploded and pulled down the ...

Santa Monica: Heal the Bay's Mark Gold sets his sights on new venture
Marina del Rey Argonaut
“This is like a new wave, and things like rain gardens in Playa Vista are becoming the new normal. “We can really look at Santa Monica Bay and see that the ecological health of the bay has improved so dramatically, but we still have a long way to go ...

Resolutions Not Sticking? "August Method" Hypnotherapy Audios Can Lead to Success
MarketWatch (press release)
To achieve the best results with hypnosis, people must see themselves succeeding with their desired resolution outcome by listening to the audio repeatedly until it becomes the "new normal". "The subconscious mind is either a success machine or a ...

We're losing control of our digital privacy
CNN
The result is the "new normal": surveillance, often of questionable legality and sometimes clear illegality, against which Americans have little effective recourse, on the rare occasions that we even know that violations are taking place.

DAVOS: Anshu Jain: Broad Economic Picture Improving, Caution Remains
Wall Street Journal
The financial executive said that volatility in the markets is the "new normal we just need to live with." However, he added that the market is much better prepared for negative tail events than in 2008, with much of the possible bad news already ...

The Future of a Revenue Manager 2.0 - Part Human, Part Computer, All Profits ...
Hospitality Net
An acceptance that the "new normal" for global market conditions is one of rapidly changing dynamics: past data is only one part of today's – and tomorrow's – revenue equation. What's more, the shrinking booking window, thanks to these above-mentioned ...

Platinum Luxury Auctions Offers Professional Athlete's Oceanfront Mansion at ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"This is an excellent example of the 'New Normal' in luxury real estate," according to Trayor Lesnock, president and founder of Platinum. "Two younger, highly successful individuals - in this case seller and agent - realizing the value of the ...

The sharp side: BC hospitals aim to safeguard health professionals from sharp ...
Vancouver Sun
... may not be practical — such as when surgeons can't take their eyes off the operating site, or when the scene in the operating room is frantic and a patient is bleeding profusely — the expectation is that the new protocol must become the new normal.

In our view / Perils of instant gratification M's wise to resist splurging
HeraldNet
With general agreement among economists that the "new normal" won't come close to resembling our pre-recession revelry, it seems prudent to start emulating the tortoise more than the hare. As a metaphor for this emerging ethos, we commend the Seattle ...

Joining a Noble Profession | From the Bell Tower
Library Journal
The prospect of a job for life, when “rightsizing” is the new normal, is rare to other sectors of the library profession, and has real value. Academic librarians may also take advantage of opportunities to advance their education through tuition ...

Tail Events, Isolation, New Normal | Jim Willie | FINANCIAL SENSE
By Jim Willie
The new normal is of a caravan file of broken cars and trucks sputtering down the road, using the false fuel of hyper monetary inflation and the offensive paint of phony financial accounting, the tell-tale sign being the ugly rancid smoke out of ...
Financial Sense

Master's Pub: The New Normal and the Changing Labor Market ...
By MBCEditor
Master's Pub: The New Normal and the Changing Labor Market. Friday, February 24, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. Universityof St. Thomas, Opus Hall, Room 201. Presenter: Tom Gillaspy, Minnesota state demographer will share insights on the changing ...
MBC News & Events

Is the labor market still stuck at its “new normal”? « Multiplier Effect
By Greg Hannsgen
Is the labor market still stuck at its “new normal”? Greg Hannsgen | January 26, 2012. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) noted on its website yesterday that in 2011, “annual totals for [layoff] events and initial claims were at their lowest levels ...
Multiplier Effect

A three-step programme to re-civilise capitalism » TripleCrisis
By Triplecrisis
When in the 1980s finance was deregulated, both nationally and internationally, crises became thenew normal, first in much of the developing world and then in the developed countries. The process of extreme liberalisation also contributed ...
TripleCrisis

Redux: Think like a client. The trick now is to win cheap.
By JD Hull
However, our enduring global recession (or "new normal", perhaps) is certainly a good time for business clients to push for ADR (including mediation) over litigation. Not because ADR is cheaper, faster and better; often it's clearly not ...
What About Paris?

Early Warning: Another Terrifying Drought Paper
By Stuart Staniford
Note the scale - the dark brown is a full -4 shift: the new normal will be extreme drought by the standards of the past. So if this map is right, you can basically kiss Mexico goodbye altogether and the mountain west and great plains look terrible ...
Early Warning

December New Home Sales Worst On Record | Sweetness & Light
By Steve
So we have a glut of debt, the money has drained off into undefined holes and we're stuck with a National Expectation that this Sudden Real Estate Syndrome is the new normal. Bwa-hahahaha. Bovine Scatology. Follow The Freaking Money ...
Sweetness & Light

Domestic Politics will Buffet US-China Relations in 2012 | Andrew S ...
By andrewserickson
Welcome to the “new normal” for U.S.-China relations. Now many challenges directly affect each country's national interests and politics, yet cannot be easily sidestepped, finessed, or bargained away because of unprecedented participation of ...
Andrew S. Erickson

Jonathon Porritt: We need growth, but not heedless growth | Green ...
By Jonathon Porritt
Welcome to the 'new normal'. I nicked that phrase from Vice-President Al Gore, who I heard give a cracking talk back in October. He did something I've not heard anyone do before, by concentrating purely on the weather-related data from the ...
Green Futures Articles

The New Normal: Economic Weakness and Decline | Veterans Today
by Stephen Lendman. On Friday, S & P cut credit ratings for nine EU countries, including France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Portugal, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia and ...
www.veteranstoday.com/.../the-new-normal-economic-weakne...

Navigating the New Normal (Again)
How did so many followers of a particular trading strategy just go away this year?
realmoney.thestreet.com/.../navigating-new-normal-again?puc...

The New Normal - Washington Post - Jewish Ideas Daily
Jewish Ideas Daily. In spite of the Islamist ideology of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, Turkey may prove to be a key U.S. ally in the Middle East during the ...
www.jidaily.com/280aB

'Peak Timber' Is The New Normal State of Human Resource ... - Topix
'Peak Timber' Is The New Normal State of Human Resource Usage. Full story: TreeHugger. Avid or even semi-avid TreeHugger readers no doubt have heard ...
www.topix.com/.../peak-timber-is-the-new-normal-state-of-hu...

Sub-par the New Normal. | Two Boot
Sub-par the New Normal. Posted on January 16, 2012 by Two Boot. While listening to the radio the other day, I heard an advertisement for CenturyLink's 5 year ...
www.twoboot.com/2012/01/sub-par-the-new-normal/

Santee short sales-The new normal? | Shannon Anderson Short ...
Short sales are the “new normal”. A Short Sale is a real estate transaction where the homeowner owes the lender more than the property is worth. For a short ...
inside-real-estate.com/.../santee-short-sales-the-new-normal/

The Hedge Fund Implode-O-Meter News Pick-ups: New Normal on ...
New Normal on Wall Street: Smaller and Restrained. 2012-01-20 — nytimes.com . "With firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reporting weak results for ...
hf-implode.com/.../2012-01-20_NewNormalonWallStreetSmal...

The New Normal - You 2.0
It was on Friday morning, the day after this past Thanksgiving, that my father and I sat watching the news while mother fixed breakfast. In the midst of a friendly ...
www.you2pointzero.com/2012/01/the-new-normal.html

Was 2011 "the new normal" for the pace of home sales in ...
Regardless of the actual numbers, my conclusion based on the data above is that 791 home sales per year (as in 2011) is not the new normal for our market.
www.scottprogers.com/blog/.../01/.../index.php?...

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