From New Normal towards the Paranormal

Towards the Paranormal

Most developed economies have not, in fact, deleveraged since 2008 and credit remains resilient because of the multitude of monetary stimulus packages being made available through central banks in the U.S. and Europe, Bill Gross writes. This risks leading to unraveling of financial markets if policy makers are unable to foster growth and inflation accelerates.

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Gross Backs Away From New Normal After Lagging Behind Peers in Bond Rally.
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Gross Says New Normal Morphing Into Credit, Zero-Rate Risks ...
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Share Bloomberg Gross Says New Normal Morphing Into Credit, Zero-Rate Risks Bloomberg Enlarge image Bill Gross Bill Gross Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Bill Gross, co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO). ...
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WELCOME TO THE PARANORMAL: Bill Gross Warns Of Financial ...
By Joe Weisenthal
Bill Gross starts 2012 with a bang in a new note titled "Towards The Paranormal", with "paranormal" being an international successor to PIMCO's famous 'new normal' descriptor. Gross' letter is very gloomy. The world has too much debt, too ...
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Bill Gross: Run For Your Lives « Dealbreaker: Wall Street Insider ...
By Bess Levin
The New Normal as PIMCO and other economists would describe it was a world of muted western growth, high unemployment and relatively orderly delevering. Now we appear to be morphing into a world with much fatter tails, bordering on ...
Dealbreaker

Bill Gross Exposes "The New Paranormal" In Which "The Financial ...
From PIMCO Toward The Paranormal The New Normal, previously believed to be bell-shaped and thin-tailed in its depiction of growth probability and financial market outcomes, appears to be morphing into a world of fat-tailed, almost bimodal ...
eWallstreeter

The new normal
United Church Observer
On television, paranormal is the new normal. A decade ago, TV shows featured characters talking to God or guided by divine messengers: think Joan of Arcadia and Touched by an Angel. But there are no higher-order beings in this new group of shows....

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Gross Says New Normal Morphing Into Credit, Zero-Rate Risks
San Francisco Chronicle
s Bill Gross said the "new normal" of muted western growth and relatively orderly delivering appears to be morphing into a world of credit and zero-bound interest rate risk. "It's as if the earth now has two moons instead of one and both are growing in ...

The New Normal / A Theory Of Good News: 2012
JD Supra (press release)
Credit Crunch www.crunchedcredit.com Dechert LLP www.dechert.com THE NEW NORMAL /A THEORY OF GOOD NEWS: 2012 January 3, 2012 by Rick Jones It's that time of year when we're forced to think about budgets and business plans. The pointy headed types from ...

Staff morale hit as pay cuts and freezes continue
Telegraph.co.uk
Managers face a mammoth challenge in the year ahead to keep staff motivated against the “new normal” of pay cuts and freezes, according to an employment body. The CIPD said better communication between managers and workers could see morale improve, ...

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'Way we've always done it' mentality can be crippling, local motivational ...
Oak Ridger
By Leean Tupper | leean.tupper@oakridger.com The "new normal" of life and business shows "change is happening at an alarming rate and if we're unprepared for it, it shocks us," local motivational speaker Sandy Smith told members of the Rotary Club of ...

Housing on rebound in Scarborough
KeepMEcurrent.com
I think people have just come to realize that this is the new normal, and are moving forward rather than wait around for some kind of national recovery." If all four projects come off before the end of the fiscal year, June 30, they alone will return ...

Where Do You Want Your Law Practice to Go in 2012?
ABA Journal
In his most recent New Normal column, Patrick Lamb writes, "The difficulties of the world and of the profession open doors to change that allow each of us to choose to do things that we love to do. But here's the problem. Making the decision requires ...

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Tom Leykis talks about his new talk show
OCRegister
He's received a regular paycheck during his hiatus from talk, enjoyed doing a wine show called "The Tasting Room with Tom Leykis" (now in its seventh year), created a new enterprise called "The New Normal," which includes 24/7 Internet music streams ...

Market Reports
Curbed Hamptons
At the end of the third quarter, the stats suggested the Manhattan market had found its new normal, and the numbers from the last quarter of 2011 do nothing to change our mind. The major brokerages and StreetEasy released their fourth-quarter reports ...

Experts agree: 2011 was a lousy year for stock IPOs
San Jose Mercury News
"During 2012, we'll get a sense of whether the last two years of flat IPO activity is the new normal," said Zoran Basich, editor of Dow Jones VentureWire. Adding to the concern for those hoping robust venture capital returns would lead to more ...

Strong year expected for Regina home sales
Regina Leader-Post
"This is the new normal.'' Last year, 3876 homes were sold on the multiple listing service (MLS) in Regina and area, up nine per cent over 2010 when 3563 properties changed hands. That's the second-highest number of sales in a year, behind 2007 when ...

Permian Basin rig count hits 400 rigs
My West Texas
Now the price abnormality would be $30 oil for any period of time; the new normal is $70, $80 or $90 oil." Scott Milliren, president of MD Cowan Inc., said the Odessa-based rig manufacturer has recently been seeing a lot of inquiries, seeking quotes on ...

Miami builder, township close on $6.3M deal
phillyBurbs.com
Mayor Brian Carlin said the board put forth a diligent effort in reviewing and approving the application. "The proceeds generated from the sale, while a one-time revenue, will benefit the township in the 2012 and future budgets in the 'new normal' of a ...

K4, blending schools key topics for Elmbrook in 2012
Brookfield Elm Grove Now
I would say yes, but will a correction need to be made over and over again, or will there be a new normal in an economy that will sustain that new model? Nobody knows right now, but if you are an advocate of public education, which I am, ...

Why we're fat: environment and governmental policies
CBS 21
"Fat is the new normal." The marketplace also conspires to help Americans think their size is OK. Vanity sizing, where what would have been a size 14 in the 1970s is now a size 10, is a marketing ploy to lure customers who feel better about themselves ...

PIMCO recommends you get ready for 2012's 'paranormal' markets
Victoria Times Colonist
By John Shmuel, Financial Post January 4, 2012 10:05 AM A lot of analysts are touting the term new normal to describe markets these days. But renowned bond fund manager Bill Gross suggests even that term needs some reworking given what stocks, ...

Turning over a new leaf takes time
Evansville Courier & Press
Now we're working to prevent relapse and make this the new normal. This also may require other changes, especially to avoid situations or triggers associated with the old habit.Once again, it is important to remember that change is a process. ...

Prediction: new record high gas prices in 2012
WTAM.com
He says that now "Seems like ancient history." Laskoski says that when peak high prices stay in the system for a while, we become conditioned to them as a new normal, and that a brief drop in prices "Seems like a bargain."

Worries mount over lack of physical education in schools
Bellingham Herald
"But we are also faced with living in the new normal." After the October audit in New York, City Comptroller John Liu said that the city's Department of Education "is failing gym." His audit of 31 elementary schools found none complying with a ...

2012 should be year of resolution
Northfield News
The third, though successfully addressed to date, will be the constant pressure of years to come-thenew normal. I am heartened by the fact that during a time of great economic challenge and uncertainty the city of Northfield is stable. ...

Oil Price Volatility Expected To Continue In 2012
Aviation Week
Volatility may not be the new normal, but it is probably here to stay for the next year, says Sarah Emerson, president of ESAI, an energy consultancy. Three macroeconomic factors are driving this volatility. The first is the unfolding story in the ...

Tom Leykis is free to return to terrestrial radio on April 2 - but he won't
Radio-Info.com
His new talk show will be a live stream, with Leykis' New Normal owning all the ad inventory. There will be "continuous replays until the next show...apps such as TuneIn, Windows Media Player, Winamp, WunderRadio, even iTunes will receive the show. ...

What happened to picks?
ESPN (blog)
Riley wanted his Knicks to play defense more aggressively than the rules allowed, so he had his players do just that on a consistent basis, confident that most refs would soon adapt to and accept this “new normal” rather than blow the whistle every ...

Happy 2012! Brazil's new year bond sale
Financial Times (blog)
... debt could be yielding less than Italian and Spanish 10-year bonds (currently trading around 6.9 and 5.2 per cent respectively) was unthinkable not very long ago. But if the first global trading day of 2012 is anything to go by, this is the new normal.

Banned Words from 2011
Janesville Gazette (blog)
"The new normal." As opposed to the old normal? I hear this one on the news a lot when they're talking about how sad it is that everyone has to start paying attention to the actual amount of money they make before buying a ginormous pile of stuff. ...

Morningstar's 2011 CEO of the Year Redefined Retail
Morningstar.com
... has partly expanded as a result of consumers looking to stretch their budgets in a time of economic hardship, we believe the company is well-positioned to remain a relevant shopping destination under a "new normal" scenario for consumer spending. ...

What's enough to attract political talent?
TODAYonline
They point to how the "new normal" political climate has upped the demands of political office, the quotient for sacrifice. There is nothing wrong with that since politics is not for the faint-hearted especially if one wants to serve at the highest ...

"New" reality.............from Rico - Theo Spark

By Theo Spark
The media had been yakking about the "new economy" but when that didn't quite work out, they shifted the meme to the "new normal" (a nicer way of saying we're all screwed). There is another "new" that has so far not been mentioned, the ...
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economic normality?? « Industrial Insight
By raymondmonroe
The Old/New Normal But before ringing in the New Year with a rather grim foreboding, let me at least describe what financial markets came to know as the “old normal.” It actually began with early 20th century fractional reserve banking, but ...
Industrial Insight

WSDOT - 2012 - Drivers find faster evening commute on SR 520
“It's going to take months for traffic to reach a new normal. Traffic patterns will change as drivers adjust.” Travel times. Data paints the traffic picture for the evening commute. It is far too early to identify trends using today's data: SR 520 ...
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Recovering From Personal Budget Abandonment | Creative Money
By Mindy Crary
This will be the new normal for you, so you can have it auto-pull out of your account every month or every paycheck. If there is NO excess income, or you're at a deficit, there are really only two solutions to correct this: Spend Less or Earn More. ...
Creative Money

Wordsmith: Words that Should be Banned in 2012
By FreelanceSwitch.com
Here's a list of all 12 words (some of them are more than one word phrases) that made this year's list, in order of the number of submissions they received: Amazing; Baby bump; Shared sacrifice; Occupy; Blowback; Man cave; The new normal ...
FreelanceSwitch

CityViews 1/5/12: Wasatch Weather Watch | KCPW
By JCE
And is this Utah's new normal? Guests: Jim Steenburgh, prof. of Atmospheric Science, University of Utah; Larry Dunn, National Weather Service. Segment 2: More and more Utah stories are finding their way onto the big screen and Geralyn ...
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Compilation of analysis and reaction to the photo finish in the Iowa ...
By Peter Schorsch
“Yes, retail still matters: Despite questions about a New Normal in campaigning – and whether the nationalized state of the race up until December represented a larger change in presidential politicking – it was the shoe-leather candidate who ...
Saint Petersblog

Amazing! 2011′s Most Overused Words List Revealed.
By admin
The New Normal. 8. Pet Parent. 9. Win The Future. 10. Trickeration. 11. Ginormous. 12. Thank You In Advance. So…….which one of these are you guilty of overusing?? And which one will you spill coffee on a coworker if they use again? ...
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Most Annoying and Overused Words - News Talk KIT
By Dave Ettl
Amazing; Baby Bump; Shared Sacrifice; Occupy; Blowback; Man Cave; The New Normal; Pet Parent; Win the Future; Trickeration; Ginormous; Thank You in Advance. Category: Entertainment News · Share on facebook!Share on twitter! ...
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A Co-Op Solution: Fighting the 'New Normal' with Workplace ...
“Where I find it to be particularly negative, is that [the new normal] will put continuing downward pressure on wages,” Kelleher told Campus Progress. “This 'new ...
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My Left Wing:: The New Normal
That's another part of the new normal. Jobs, pensions, and 401(k) plans, while never completely secure, still used to seem like pretty sure things. Now they all ...
www.myleftwing.com/diary/27757/the-new-normal

Make the Most of the “New Normal” | The Office Professional

You probably don't like the phrase “the new normal.” The recession has changed all of our lives, and not for the better. Millions of people are still unemployed, ...
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