Saturday, January 7, 2012

Why One Investor Says the 'New Normal' Is Over

Welcome to the Paranormal Economy: Why One Investor Says the 'New Normal' Is Over
TIME (blog)
But above all else the phrase that most people seem to agree has capture best the essence of the post financial crisis economy is “The New Normal.” Nonetheless, Bill Gross, the prominent bond fund manager who is credited with popularizing the phrase a...

TIME (blog)

The Bailout Mentality -- The REAL "New Normal"
Forbes
As we enter 2012, I can't help but feel as if the mentality of investing has drastically changed in just a few short years. While it has always been foolish to try and explain why markets move the way they do on any given day, what has become clear is ...

TargetGov Announces Two New Speakers For the January 23, 2012 Teleconference ...
Your-Story.org (press release)
TargetGov announced today the addition of two new speakers to the national teleconference scheduled on January 23, 2012 (The NEW Normal: What to Expect in 2012). Mr. Michael Hackmer, Senior Community Manager, GovWin and Mr. Mark R. “Hawk” Thomas, ...

Balancing Instincts And Physical Ability, Doty Seeks 'A New Normal'
Hartford Courant
"At this point in the season she is looking and feeling a new normal. She is starting to become comfortable with herself, understanding how hard she can go and for how long. That's really important when you come back. "But when you have been hurt as ...

Bill O'Neill expects challenging 2012
FT Adviser
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management's Bill O'Neill has said investment decisions in 2012 will be challenging as the “new normal” persists. By Mitali Patel | Published 17:44 | comments Mr O'Neill, chief investment officer for EMEA at the firm, ...

FT Adviser

PIMCO's Gross looks to US Treasuries in 2012
Futures Magazine
PIMCO's Bill Gross issued his January 2012 Investment Outlook, focusing on the “New Normal” economy. For 2012, in the face of a de-levering zero-bound interest rate world, Gross says investors must lower return expectations. 2-5% for stocks, ...

Giffords still recovering 1 year after shooting
KHOU
Patients come there from all walks of life, learning to cope with and explore what's referred to as “the new normal.” Normal doesn't even begin to describe the events of a year ago that thrust TIRR into the national spotlight. ...

Ohio Beef Cattle School
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Following a theme of "The New Normal," each session will be broadcast live beginning at 7 pm by many of Ohio's Extension offices via an internet link, and will focus on optimizing efficient beef production in a rapidly changing business and consumer ...

Romney: Jobless Rate Over 8 percent Too High
National Journal
As president, I will refuse to accept high unemployment as the 'new normal' for our economy,” Romney said. The other Republicans running for Obama's job had equally pessimistic interpretations of the the new numbers. Here is a sampling from the ...

'Just-in-time' business models put UK at greater risk in event of disasters ...
The Guardian
Bernice Lee, lead author of the report, said: "The frequency of high-impact, low-probability events in the last decade signals the emergence of a new 'normal'. Apparent one-off high-profile crises such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Macondo oil spill ...

The Guardian

Unemployment falls 200K new jobs
Politico
Mitt Romney repeated his talking point from the November about the administration settling for unemployment above 8 percent as the “new normal,”a characterization the administration would dispute. “President Obama's policies have slowed the recovery ...

Politico

Recap: 'The Vampire Diaries' - 'The New Deal'
HitFix (blog)
Yet again, Elena, Jeremy and Ric must face a new normal -- and, as usual, that new normal pulls them deeper into a dark world that no high school kid (or really anyone) should have to face. While Elena's been on a romantic roller coaster for a while ...

HitFix (blog)

Pimco's Gross Says US Labor Market Still Faces 'Tough Slog': Tom Keene
Bloomberg
Revised Outlook Earlier this week, Gross backed away from Pimco's “new normal” outlook after lagging behind the majority of his peers during the biggest bond-market rally in nine years. The period of muted growth in developed economies, ...

Bloomberg

Black bean soup with cumin and salsa verde
Christian Science Monitor
This became the new normal. When I reached my weight loss goal I had established a new pleasurable way of eating. All I had to do was cut back on my exercise (bummer). As you contemplate the new year, don't attempt the newest fad diet. ...

Christian Science Monitor

Technology reshaping the map — and minds
San Antonio Express
High on Mack's list is “navigating the new normal.” That means clipping coupons, trading down and cutting back will continue to be a trend for “extremely cost-sensitive consumers.” “We've been measuring it here since 2003, in the run up to the war in ...

Santorum faces skeptics as he seeks votes in NH
Boston.com
That's become the new normal for a candidate who just weeks ago struggled to fill seats even in small venues. His stark opposition to abortion and gay rights and his personal testimony of faith are central to his campaign. While that endears him to ...

Boston.com

Surprise is in how unsurprising temps were
Austin Herald
The wonder is that we can have these kind of January temperatures and not be shocked about it; weird weather seems to be the new normal. The New York Times ran a long story last week about how little time President Obama seems to spend schmoozing ...

Stat of the day: one week
Management Today
Hurricane Katrina, the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, Eyjafjallajökull's ash cloud and the nuclear crisis and tsunami in Japan all signal the emergence of a new 'normal', the apocalyptically named 'crisis trend'. Governments and businesses are ...

Obama's Counterproductive New Iran Sanctions
Foreign Affairs
... and not Tehran, which prefers the more familiar (and lower-risk) options availed through proxies and terrorist activities. A prolonged low-intensity struggle -- with plenty of blustery rhetoric and diplomatic hardball -- is now the new normal.

Bed tax revenues increase; Walton had best November ever
The Northwest Florida Daily News
I've said all along that at some point we know we will level out and plateau and then we'll get to thatnew normal, but this has been an ongoing trend.” Between July and November, Walton County's bed tax collections are up 52.3 percent compared to the ...

Dealing with loss
Sand Mountain Reporter
Life will never be the same, but you can achieve a new normal. Life is a gift, and there is joy even if you've lost someone you love." Participants range from people suffering recent loss to those who have grieved for several years. ...

Big health merger, big questions
Alexandria Echo Press
Vaagenes said the arrival of Sanford to the area is the “new normal.” “[The arrival of Sanford] is not a setback at this point because it's done. It's a new normal. Sanford will be here now and we need to work with them and they with us like we have in ...

Follow the Management Names: Taylor MacDonald
Jutia Group
The issues in Europe are long term in nature and this is another reason that we have built volatility in as the new normal in our macro thesis. TGR: Early in 2011, two-thirds of your fund was in resource-based equities: precious and base metals, ...

Mesirow Financial Identifies Challenges and Opportunities for 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
Read more>> ( http://www.mesirowfinancial.com/outlook/2012/narratives/intl_economy.jsp ) Investment Advisory Volatility is the new normal. Good investment decisions are made by focusing on the long-term economics of businesses and the price paid for ...

Rush: Government Employment Report Is 'Fraudulent'
NewsMax.com
“The new normal. This is it.” Limbaugh said the 8 ½ percent rate is not progress, as the administration maintains. “Five trillion dollars in deficit later, we have an 8 ½ percent unemployment rate,” he said. “That's it?” Lack of economic growth is the ...

The season for whining and whimsy
StarPhoenix
... www.lssu. edu, the 2012 banished list includes amazing (as in everything you can imagine is "amazing"), baby bump, shared sacrifice, occupy, blowback, man cave, the new normal, pet parent, ginormous, trickeration and thank you in advance. ...

Parent program helps children through divorce
Easton Courier
"Parents overlook the fact that the child's experience with life is being changed, that he or she is facing a 'new normal'." The agency offers the six-hour course in two three-hour sessions on successive nights or as a full six-hour session on ...

THE SEPARATIST: Memories of 2011: Pain, shock and a vow
Minda News
And when the surges of pain hit us, we cried our hearts out then went back to business of learning how to live this “new normal life.” Routine, in all its dullness, was ironically a good thing to (re)acquire. Angela finished second grade with aplomb ...

"The Long Goodbye" by Meghan O'Rourke [Book Review]
Austinist
Grieving a parent's death is about reliving your childhood and then letting it go, thus reassessing your place in the world or “finding a new normal.” In an interview, O'Rourke said, “I didn't want The Long Goodbye merely to be an account of suffering, ...

In a system with winners and losers, you can't have 'equality of opportunity'
The Guardian (blog)
These hapless footsoldiers helped to weaken unions, depress wages and make casual employment the new normal. Once they were in power, Labour declined adequately to reform employment law to give such workers some stability and protection, ...

The Guardian (blog)

On Paranormal – A Review of the “New-New Normal” | Crackerjack ...
By crackerjack
Coming from a firm believer in the original new normal thesis, as a spot on depiction on how the post-financial crisis world evolved, I think the “paranormal” view of market dynamics is too extreme. That the world, economically speaking, ...
Crackerjack Finance

Building a “New Normal” on the Bedrock of Risk Management
By admin
Building a “New Normal” on the Bedrock of Risk Management. On 6 January 2012, in Management and Information. Martin Craighead became president and chief executive officer of Baker Hughes on 1 January 2012. He joined the company ...
SPE Technology Updates

The old abnormal: How even PIMCO's Bill Gross can err | Business ...
By Business News
“The 'new normal' topic during PIMCO was predicated upon a low seductiveness rate sourroundings boring protected holds down as investors sought higher-yielding opportunities elsewhere,” pronounced Jeff Tjornehoj, executive of ...
Business News

Santorum faces skeptics as he seeks votes in NH « New Hampshire ...
By Associated Press
That's become the new normal for a candidate who just weeks ago struggled to fill seats even in small venues. His stark opposition to abortion and gay rights and his personal testimony of faith are central to his campaign. While that endears ...
New Hampshire Journal

Looking into 2012 – what's hot, what's not | Education Futures
By John Moravec
“The New Normal: The recession is officially over, but many people are left unemployed or significantly underemployed.” Indeed, we now have a human capital crisis where talents that used to support a middle class lifestyle are now obsolete. ...
Education Futures

Global Disasters the New Normal? - Tort Trial and Insurance ...
By Larry Schiffer
Global Disasters the New Normal? The press is reporting on a UK think tank paper about global disasters and how to prepare for them. Chatham House has issued a lengthy paper (Preparing for High Impact Events) that comes with an ...
Tort Trial and Insurance Practice...

U.S. Government to the Rescue « SGTreport.com
By Stefan B
There's “abnormal,” “subnormal,” “paranormal” and of course “new normal.” Mohamed El-Erian's awakening phrase of several years past has virtually been adopted into the lexicon these days, but now it has an almost antiquated vapor to it ...
SGTreport.com

The Year Ahead | DomeMagazine.com
By admin
Will we, in fact, have settled into the new normal of a race between Mr. Romney and President Barack Obama by then? Well, too early to say. Several points need pointing out at this point: the first is the antediluvian concept of the calendar. ...
DomeMagazine.com

Citi Ends Talks With PE Firm [Morning Update] | Street Of Walls
... its OneMain consumer-lending unit to PE firms http://on.wsj.com/xs2tcQ; Bill Gross on the Economy: The New Normal, previously believed to be bell-shaped and thin-tailed in its depiction of growth probability and financial market outcomes, ...
Street Of Walls

Want To Revive The Economy? Open Public Buildings To Remote ...
By Jon Mitchell
Co-working is the new normal, and city governments could drive lots of high-tech productivity if they make their latent space available to flexible, remote workers. Palo Alto is an obvious place to start, but every city in the world should start ...
ReadWriteWeb

Tim Duy on the Output Gap « Modeled Behavior
By Karl Smith
Or will we see a new normal, with a constrained consumer spending at a path and rate below those prior to the recession? I am sympathetic to that outcome, with a corresponding increase in export growth to foster rebalancing of the economy ...
Modeled Behavior

"DIY Cesium Scanning Store May Be 'New Normal'" | SEJ
In the Japanese community of Kashiwa, scanning your food and soil for radiation is the new normal. "Kashiwa, about 30 km northeast of Tokyo, is known for its ...
www.sej.org/.../diy-cesium-scanning-store-may-be-new-norma...

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