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Recession Journal VI: It's OVER!!!!!!!!!!!! Any Questions?

Posted October 31, 2009 - 08:00 by Jabulani Leffall

Consumer Affairs

The recession is technically over, officially over, numerically over. How do you feel now and what are you gonna do about it?

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How to Deal with Recession Anxiety

Posted October 29, 2009 - 05:00 by Silicon Valley Blogger

Personal Finance

financial worry

The nation’s economic recovery is anemic, with unemployment rates continuing to climb, but this doesn’t mean that your household economy is in trouble. There are a few simple (or not so simple, but effective) ways to help you to avoid participating in the recession and the fear mongering that prevail during such periods.

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Recession Journal Part III: How Low Can We Go and When Will We Get There?

Posted July 31, 2009 - 04:00 by Jabulani Leffall

Personal Finance

In order for the economy to turn around it has to hit what so many investment experts and economic forecasters call the "bottom," but what is it, this bottom, what does it look like and with all of this conflicting data, how should we tailor our own spending habits?

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Peak Debt

Posted September 19, 2008 - 01:13 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

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Is there a limit to how much Americans can spend? Clearly there is: All they earn, minus savings and service on their existing debt, plus new borrowing. Since the Bureau of Economic Analysis puts numbers on those very items, it's possible to see just how close we are to the edge. In a fascinating paper, Ron Laszewski does exactly that. The results are rather depressing.

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Recession Depression

Posted 2 years ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Personal Finance

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