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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday a of a survey of economists say the recession is now over:
After months of uncertainty, economists are finally seeing a break in the clouds. Forecasts were revised upward for every period, with 27 economists saying the recession had ended and 11 seeing a trough ...
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
When will the recession end? When the printing recession end? How is the industry doing, all thing considered? What is the outlook for the industry?
The answer to the first question, well, no one knows. The current crisis took many years to create, and it will take make years to extricate ...
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Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Believe it or not there are still print executives who think business is slow because the economy is slow. They ask "when will the economy get better so things can get back to normal?" Normal? Lately, "normal" has been pretty bad. I'd like to go back to the printing industry ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Here’s a question: is there any such thing as a recession-proof business? Alcohol distribution and drug trafficking aside, we have found in our own industry companies that defy macroeconomic trends. Time was, commercial printing was such a business; in the 1980s, print grew faster than GDP, and even in the ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
I had first started working with TrendWatch (later TrendWatch Graphic Arts, even later The Industry Measure, and now just late) back in 1999, even before its acquisition by That Which Shall Remain Nameless, and one of the first projects I had worked on was a 2000 forecast of the graphic ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
Monday's financial markets perpetuate uncertainty in the markets when there should be none. This is what we know for certain: banks get into trouble when they loan money to people who can't pay it back; the U.S. Federal Reserve likes throwing gas on fires.
This is quite different than some of ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Here's the Summer Reading List from Dr. Joe’s Q3 Economic Outlook Webinar held earlier today.
Morgan Stanley Internet Trends
just published 6/12/2008; great stuff about social networking, new gadgets
Amazon Kindle – As big as the iPod?
Look at the Kindle on amazon.com
Why is it called the ...
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