RECESSION popularity and RECESSION trends

EXPERTS say UK economy would be slashed by 2% & plunged deeper into recession

Multi-millionaire Michael Spencer, left, and international development secretary Andrew Mitchell, right, quaffed the pricey Bordeaux as the government repeatedly tells us, we're in the recession 'together'.

Mitt Romney explains Keynesian budgeting: Halperin: You have a plan, as you said, over a number of years, to reduce spending dramatically. Why not in the first year, if you’re elected — why not in 2013, go all the way and propose the kind of budget with spending restraints, that you’d like to see after four years in office? Why not do it more quickly?Romney: Well because, if you take a trillion...

Worst case scenario: North America drops back into a recession that economists warn would be far deeper and more dangerous than the one we just went through. Here's a look at three possible outcomes and their impact

The UK economy could be plunged even deeper into recession with a GDP contraction of up to 2pc if Greece is forced into a disorderly exit from the eurozone.

Coroners courts concluded that 3,471 people had taken their own lives last year, a rise of 15 per cent compared to 2007. However, some areas have seen numbers more than double.

The bew report put pressure on the government to consider growth measures.

As the economic recovery crawls along, companies selling products from diamond rings to giant tubs of mayonnaise are still hung over from lean economic conditions, writes Angela Moore.

L'influent ex-ministre russe des Finances Alexeï Koudrine a estimé jeudi qu'une récession en Europe pourrait avoir de lourdes conséquences sur la Russie, et dès lors faire "exploser" les problèmes politiques sans précédent, auxquels est déjà confronté Vladimir Poutine. "En Russie, la probabilité...Articles en rapportWall Street hésite, tiraillée entre zone euro et chiffres américainsLa polémiqu...

The U.K. is already in a double dip recession - but it was deeper in the first quarter of the year than was first thought.

In a fresh blow to the Government, Britain is enduring its longest economic slump for a century as gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 0.3% between January and March down from a first estimate of 0.2%.

La confirmation du retour en récession du Royaume-Uni a encore accru jeudi...

La confirmation du retour en récession du Royaume-Uni a encore accru jeudi la pression sur le Premier ministre David Cameron pour qu'il lâche du lest dans sa politique d'austérité au profit de la croissance, en plein débat européen sur les moyens de relancer l'économie.histoires liéesImportations: la Suisse impose une amende à BMW qui va faire appelCroissance: des doutes s´accumulent sur la rés...

L’économie britannique s’est contractée de 0,3% au 1er trimestre de cette année, une performance encore pire qu’attendue, selon une nouvelle estimation provisoire publ...lire la suitehistoires liées10:49 La Bourse de Londres peine à se redresser11:18 Russie : des leaders de l’opposition sortent de prison11:14 La Chine appelle l’UE à refuser le protectionnisme11:38 Tennis (Roland Garros) : Merte...

OPINION:A joint article by Latin American ambassadors María Esther Teresa Bondanza, of Argentina; Pedro Fernando Bretas Bastos, of Brazil; Teresita de Caridad Trujillo Hernandez, of Cuba; Leonel Fernando Searle Couve, of Chile; and Carlos Garcia de Alba Zepeda, of Mexico

Overheated housing market and high levels of household debt could put Canada in a bad spot

The Argentine economy is increasingly losing steam and will likely enter into recession this year, according to a report by research firm Capital Economics. The firm said Argentina could find itsel...

* Fiscal restraint in 2013 could lead to contraction-CBO * No restraint over long run not sustainable-CBO By Lucia Mutikani and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - A stalemate over how to tackle a series of fiscal deadlines at year's end would likely push the United States economy into recession in the first half of next year, the Congression...

The US could tip into recession if the government does not avert year-end tax hikes and federal spending cuts, auditors say.

Le chef du gouvernement espagnol affiche une position plus proche de la chancelière allemande que du président français, espérant convaincre l'Allemagne de la nécessité d'une intervention de la BCE

Wigan and West Brom are leading the way as most Barclays Premier League clubs try to help fans beat the recession. Latics chairman Dave Whelan has slashed season-ticket prices by up to 13.5 per cent.

The U.S. economy will likely enter another recession in the first half of 2013 if large tax increases and spending cuts are allowed to go into effect in January, the CBO said.

Tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect in January would suck $607 billion out of the economy next year, plunging the nation at least briefly back into recession, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. Read full article >>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new government study says that allowing Bush-era tax cuts to expire and a scheduled round of automatic spending cuts to take effect would probably throw the economy into a recession....

OECD reports says eurozone economies will shrink further which will increase the chances of recession and unemployment.

BERLIN — European leaders are set to descend on Brussels on Wednesday for a showdown over suggested drastic remedies for the region’s debt crisis, even as fresh signs emerge that Europe’s escalating woes could plunge the region into a recession capable of undercutting the global economic recovery. Read full article >>

My Name is Moose is a book about what it's like to be a dog in the recession. It's also a book about how to enjoy the simple stuff in life - dogs are our masters when it comes to living freely and easily.

PARIS (AP) -- The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a "severe recession," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned on Tuesday, as it called on governments and Europe's central bank to act quickly to keep the slowdown from dragging down the global economy....

Britain should consider cutting VAT or National Insurance if the recession continues, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

Traditional gap years are dying out as record numbers of students prioritise the search for graduate jobs during the recession, according to research.

The class of 2012 is leaving U.S. colleges with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs.

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent that what we are dealing with is not just a recession, but a crisis of the existing capitalist system itself.

Mental health charities say they have seen a surge in calls to their helplines since the start of the recession.

This combination of economic stagnation and high inflation, coming soon after the first double-dip recession since 1975, would suggest there might be a return to the calamitous performance of the Seventies.

MICHAEL HANLON: America teeters on the brink of another recession - yet vulgar flats and luxury cars are changing hands for fortunes. These are odd times.

As the recession deepens, more workers are getting by on the black-market economy that amounts to as much as a fifth of the country’s gross domestic product.

Spain tumbled into recession and European stock markets fell on Thursday as Greece installed a crisis government to tackle its crippling debt and top EU leaders prepared for crisis talks.

The U.K. is unlikely to need another dose of central bank stimulus unless "worrying" tensions in the euro zone threaten to plunge its economy back into a deep recession, a senior Bank of England official said.

SPAIN has tumbled into recession as Greece installs a crisis government to tackle its crippling debt.

PRAGUE – Czech police have charged a leading opposition politician with bribery, a high-profile case at a time of rising public anger at the level of political corruption and an economic recession deepened by budget cuts and tax increases.

As the recession deepens, more workers are getting by on the black market economy that amounts to as much as a fifth of the country's gross domestic product

Global trade logistics performance slowed down over the last two years amid the global recession, but India and others that pursued aggressive reforms continued to improve, according to the World Bank.

To restart an icy economy and free its citizens from strict Soviet-style money controls, all Iceland needs is a single planeload of Canadian dollars, a pair of Iceland economists told a packed Bay Street conference room Monday afternoon

European commercial real-estate markets are struggling with a sharp increase in mortgages falling into trouble, just as more European countries slip back into recession.

The economic juggernaut has helped the eurozone to avoid a technical recession

Germany, Europe's biggest economy, posted 0.5% growth thanks to strong exports.

The eurozone has narrowly avoided returning to recession after recording zero growth in the first three months of the year, figures have shown.

Stronger-than-expected growth in Germany was enough to help the European Union and the 17-nation eurozone avoid falling into recession for the second time since 2009 in the first three months of this year.

Germany's economy confounded expectations by posting robust growth in the first quarter of the year while France could summon up none at all and Italy slid further into recession, data showed today.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone just avoided recession in early 2012 but the region's debt crisis sapped the life out of the French and Italian economies and widened a split with paymaster Germany.

PARIS (AP) -- France's economy failed to grow in the first quarter of the year, according to data released Tuesday, raising concerns that the country could be heading toward a recession....

L'économie allemande a fait un pied-de-nez à la récession qui touche plusieurs de ses partenaires européens et sauvé la mise à la zone euro toute entière en rebondissant de 0,5% au premier trimestre, bien plus que prévu, selon des chiffres préliminaires publiés mardi.

DEAN BAKER & KEVIN HASSETT The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs. In 2007, before the Great Recession, people who were looking for work for more than six months - the definition of long-term unemployment - accounted for just 0.8 per cent of the labour force. The recession has radically changed this picture. In 2010...

Industrial production in the eurozone fell by 0.3% in March, figures show, fuelling concerns that the bloc has returned to recession.

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's social fabric is being torn by recession and tensions are growing among its citizens, Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Sunday.

In this week’s address, President Obama called on Democrats and Republicans to come together and act on his Congressional “to-do list,” which will create jobs and help restore middle class security. In this make-or-break moment for the middle class, these five initiatives have bipartisan support and will help create an economy that is built to last.  While some believe we should return to the...

A TOURISM initiative to entice people with Irish connections to visit next year will help lift Ireland out of recession, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.

After stock futures slipped in pre-market trading, equities have gradually bounced back, particularly after the University of Michigan-Thomson Reuters released results of its consumer sentiment survey. The survey showed consumers are more optimistic than at any time since January 2008, the month after the recession began. The overall confidence reading rose to 77.8 in May [...]

On the campaign trail, everything you say can be held against you.

MADRID, May 11 (Reuters) - Want to know how bad things can get in corporate Europe? Ask a Spanish CEO.

Our cities are poised to be the incubators for new American factories.Perhaps the only silver lining to the Great Recession is that it triggered a new focus on manufacturing in the United States. After 25 years of being sold a shiny vision of a service-dominated post-industrial economy, the U.S. is rediscovering how important it is to actually make things in order to spur innovation, raise wage...

As the country emerges from the Great Recession, a substantial number of U.S. families are underwater—and not just with their mortgages.

The worst of the recession is over, unemployment is on the right path, decisive action has been taken on a foreign field but Obama is still lost.

Austerity policies, the eurozone debt crisis and the wider economic recession is fuelling racism and the rise of the far-right, Europe's human rights watchdog has warned.

L'activité a reculé de 0,3% au premier trimestre par rapport à fin 2012. C'est légèrement mieux qu'attendu, mais le douloureux redressement des finances publiques devrait enfoncer le pays dans la crise.

At the meeting of the Shadow ECB Council on 26 April  2012 a large majority recommended a cut of the ECB’s main refinancing rate to compensate for the negative growth effects of fiscal austerity.

The slowing of the growth rate is partly explained by the recession, but evidence suggests that changing behavior of health care providers and consumers also partly accounts for it.

City has lured small business, 5,000 new jobs in four years

China's economic growth will slow to 7.5 to 8.5 percent this year and next, as a eurozone recession curbs exports, Moody's Investors Service said.

Italian PM says the policies are shrinking Europe’s economy and, without new growth measures, could deepen a double-dip recession

The homeless charity Focus Ireland has seen a sharp rise in demand for its services and has warned that it is stretched to the limit because of the recession.

President Obama's opponents like nothing more than tying him to a socialist Europe, the bogeyman of today's American right. Whatever the merits of their claims policy-wise, they might be onto something from a campaign perspective.

L'opposition travailliste accuse le plan d'austérité du gouvernement Cameron, jugé bien trop drastique.

In a historic reversal, Mexican immigration to the U.S. has tumbled since the recession began and more are returning home.

In early 2012, many analysts were predicting the imminent resumption of the recession in Europe. Against the backdrop of the worsening debt problems of Greece and Spain, the economic performance indicators in the EU for the first quarter were not the best. Now, the united Europe is threatened by a new attack: unemployment growth does not stop

THE Aussie market looks set to open lower following news on Italy's recession and reports Spain's bad loan ratio is at an 18-year high.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Their battle joined, challenger Mitt Romney savaged President Barack Obama's handling of the economy on Wednesday while the commander-in-chief commiserated up close with victims of the recession and warned that Republicans would only make matters worse....

There are 200,000 more women aged 50 to 64 in work than at the start of the recession in 2008, compared to just 3,000 more men in jobs

Le FMI et les investisseurs belges ne prévoient pas de récession cette année. Mais le Fonds monétaire international table sur une croissance nulle. ...lire la suite

A new site called Dog Vacay helps traveling dog owners find local homes for their pets while they’re away by providing Airbnb-type listing…

GLOBAL trade growth will further slow as the EU fights recession and even China's dynamic growth loses pace

World leaders said they'd reform the world's financial institutions in the wake of the Great Recession, but they haven't met their commitments. We all may pay the price.

by Vasudevan Vasudevan Jack Canfield’s  E + R = O    E+R = O (Event+ Responses= Outcome), a formula of Jack canfield, american motivational speaker, author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul, an 8 million copies seller in 41 languages, a formula for all who want to succeed in spite of a recession  and create the life of one’s dreams, caught my attention in one of the dailies  detailing an inter...

Although the current recession in Europe will probably extend into the third quarter, we believe the economy may pick up modestly late this year and in 2013, said Standard & Poor's today in announcing the publication of its report "No Fast Lane Out Of Europe's Recession."

Drake Johnstone of Davenport & Co. today cut his rating on shares of Vodafone Group (VOD) to Neutral from Buy, and cut his price target to $30 from $32, writing that Europe’s recession and an EU mandate for carriers to cut roaming and interconnection fees will push down revenue this year. Johnstone models Vodafone revenue [...]

FORMER Stone Roses guitarist Aziz Ibrahim's second album was inspired by racism, recession and riots

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said he will call for layoffs of city employees as part of the budget he proposes next month.

Manufacturing in China weakens for fifth month; factory surveys signal euro zone will not avoid recession

The present path leads to renewed recession. But there's hope in Fed policy and possible compromise.

Headline Title:  Spain’s economic recession must not lead to human rights crisis 16 March 2012 The Spanish authorities must ensure the country’s economic difficulties do not result in a human rights crisis, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Salil Shetty said as he conc...

Gary Dourdan says the bank that holds his mortgage is flagrantly violating his legal rights and demonstrating heartless indifference to people caught up in the recession ... and he's ready to prove it to a judge.Dourdan just filed a lawsuit --…

WHEELING, West Virginia (Reuters) - In George Vacheresse's lifetime, Appalachia has fallen from its prime when steel mills and coal mines anchored middle-class communities and offered hope there always would be enough work to go around. In this historically poor region nestled in the misty mountains of the eastern United States, most steel mills shut down long ago and the coal workforce has shr...

Steel prices got whacked in the recession. But with steel makers trimming down their debt and costs, the sector, and prices, should emerge stronger by 2013.

A World Bank report shows that the global recession, contrary to economists’ expectations, did not increase poverty in the developing world.

NEW YORK (AP) -- This year's Tribeca Film Festival will feature many domestically oriented movies that deal with contentious contemporary issues, from the recession to James Franco's artistic antics....

Avant même qu'il entre en vigueur, la vertu budgétaire que ce traité entend imposer est mise en question par la conjoncture économique de plus en plus dégradée et la récession en cours en zone euro.Articles en rapportVingt-cinq pays membres signent un nouveau pacte de discipline budgétaireUne brève respiration européenneL´aide humanitaire stoppée à HomsLE VISAGEClaude Guéant fait un lien entre ...

In his new book, Noam Scheiber argues that in-fighting and Lawrence H. Summers kept President Obama from doing enough for the economy during the recession.

As oil prices start to respond to supply problems, the correlation is evaporating, and the global economy is already paying a high price.

[[365602]] MILAN (Italie) (AFP) : Le chef du gouvernement italien, Mario Monti, a assuré lundi, que l'Italie n'aurait pas besoin d'un nouveau plan d'austérité, même si la récession durait dans le pays. "Si la récession dure, si la situation de l'économie réelle ne s'améliore pas (...) non, il n'y...

STAR says getting short-changed when converting dollars in London inspired one of his top songs, Billionaire

THE NUMBER of Americans killed in traffic accidents has plummeted in the past couple of decades, thanks to safer cars, wider use of seat belts, public awareness campaigns, better laws and enforcement and, most recently, reduced mileage among younger drivers, a byproduct of the recession. Among the most encouraging trends has been a dramatic drop in alcohol-related traffic deaths, which account...

A comprehensive new report on health insurance shows the so-called Great Recession caused hundreds of thousands of Californians to lose coverage and acquire medical debt.

PREM bosses spent more than £65m in January as the transfer window closed

Maybe because it qualifies as fantasy fare in the Great Recession, Undercover Boss grabbed its biggest audience since January 2011, according to Nielsen overnights

World needs to create almost 600-million jobs in order to tackle unemployment caused by recession.

LONDON, Jan 26 - Private equity firm 3i Group said it had seen softening earnings in some of its portfolio, giving a clear signal that euro zone worries and the threat of another recession is...

Continent’s handling of its debt crisis will determine if world slides into another recession, financial watchdog says in annual report

Hotel spas had deeper declines in revenues and profits than actual hotels did in 2008 and 2009.

This is a revised version of a post that appeared three years ago, towards the start of the recession. It seems just as relevant, maybe more relevant, now. A while back there was a study that suggested that it is more expensive to be poor in the US in some ways, than it is to be rich. And to anyone who has actually been poor, this probably made perfect sense. Among the ways that be...

PARIS (Reuters) - Europe's telecom shares have long been seen as safe houses when the wolf is at the door, but recession, fierce competition and costly network upgrades are huffing and puffing at their capacity to pay generous dividends.

CROKE PARK stadium revenue has been hit by recession but its core business managed to hold up in the first full year without rugby and soccer internationals.

THE Aussie economy is at a crossroads, spooked by a crisis not seen since Paul Keating's "recession we had to have".

THE Australian economy now finds itself at the crossroads, spooked by a jobs crisis not seen since Paul Keating's "recession we had to have".

Pour l'avant-dernière journée de qualification, Toulouse et Clermont ont leur destin en main. Biarritz, lui, est dos au mur. C'est en revanche déjà terminé pour les autres : Castres, Montpellier et le Racing

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The trade group that puts on the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas says it has hit a record number of exhibitors this year, as the industry continues its rebound after the recession....

Christine Lagarde says the eurozone might avoid a recession in 2012 as there have been massive changes over the last 18 months.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Author Thomas Frank has seen the future and he doesn't think many Americans will like it.

Though more Americans are sensibly leaving their cars at home and opting for the bus or train, mass transit is still in deep financial trouble.

The mobile phone technology sector escaped the biting recession this festive season with the help of the millions who filled their virtual stockings with the latest apps.

A five-member panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs describes how to invest and start companies during a recession--and why now might be the best time to bring new technologies to market.

Merry Christmas, readers. What a strange season to be jolly and go ‘ho ho ho’ ! If we are looking for fireworks on New Year’s Eve, we’ll get them! But for now, let’s see what Santa Sonia has lined up for us in her bag of goodies. Oops! Isn’t her customary Santa sack really tiny? More like a knapsack than a bulgingwith-gifts bag one associates with a generous, large-hearted Mother Christmas. Let...

An anonymous reader writes "Eric Schmidt says what we all suspected: Silicon Valley has largely been immune to the Great Recession. He said, 'Occupy Wall Street isn’t really something that comes up in daily discussion, because their issues are not our daily reality. We live in a bubble, and I don’t mean a tech bubble or a valuation bubble. I mean a bubble as in our own little world.... Companie...

Shortlist: Avoiding a recession, the summer of discontent, the Ofers Brothers scandal, Stanley Fischer runs for head of the IMF and Israel's tycoons renege on their bonds’ debt.

Fiscal austerity policies being implemented by countries are driving the global economy towards a recession, the United Nations trade and development body warned today, stressing that greater attention should be paid to high unemployment, which it called a more pressing problem than budgetary deficits.

ATHENS (AFP) - Poverty has severely worsened in Greece under a gruelling recession exacerbated by austerity measures, swelling the ranks of the unemployed, the homeless and the destitute, experts said Saturday.“We have noticed a dramatic increase in our mess halls over the recent period,” added Chrysostomos Symeonidis, head of the Athens archdiocese poverty fund. “We distribute over 10,000 meal...

Nikki Blonsky totally gets that when times are tough, you gotta do what you gotta do. We are in a recession after all, so how recessionista fab is it that when the acting gigs stopped rolling in,...

Finance minister says Israel preparing for "difficult scenario"; announces India trip to boost exports to developing world.

Prince Hot Ginge can no longer tiptoe into his grammy's bed chambers in the middle of the night to sneak a few quid (I'm speakin' British!) out of the pocketbook she clutches onto when she sleeps, because there's not going to be anything in there anymore! The sport of extreme couponing is calling The Queen's name, because her pay for being THE QUEEN!!! has been frozen until 2015 a...

(Reuters) - While many retail stores are working hard to lure holiday shoppers in the midst of bad economic times, a long-ignored corner of the market is on track to keep spirits high.

Natalité en berne, forte mortalité, peur des immigrants... La Russie fait face à une récession démographique confirmée par le recensement de 2010. Ce phénomène donne la mesure du traumatisme lié à l'effondrement de l'Union soviétique. / Russie, URSS, Démographie, Enfance, Femmes, Immigrés, Inégalités, (...) / Russie, URSS, Démographie, Enfance, Femmes, Immigrés, Inégalités, Migrations, Protect...

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by 5.9 percent, upending the notion that a decline during the recession might persist.

L'économie des pays développés comme celle des émergents ralentit, la zone euro semble engagée dans une légère récession à mesure que se propage la…

THE eurozone crisis is now one step away from plunging advanced economies into an abyss of recession, the OECD has warned.

Scottish League beat recession with £80m agreement but Rangers and Celtic must play four times.

Quite a few single word domains sold on Namejet.com this week and non of the prices seemed to high. Stocked.com led the way off of our sheet selling for just $11K. Looks like the recession maybe starting to  hit the wholesale aftermarket in a big way. Here are some of the domain name sales we [...]

Brussels, November 16 (ots/PRNewswire) - As Europe faces the danger of recession, one industry is planning massive growth. The European offshore wind industry is set to more than triple its annual investments over the next decade - creating jobs, manufacturing and construction ...

Nicole’s appearance does nothing to dispel my fear. She’s lean and healthy-looking, and her intense blue eyes feed my suspicion that I’m in the clutches of a health fanatic. I contacted Nicole because I’d heard good things about her date chèvre truffles and her pork tamales. For some reason, it never occurred to me that truffles and tamales could be part of a health agenda; I’d already committe...

The nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years The president mindful of soaring deficits is pushing bold action to shore up the nation's balance sheet Cloaking himself in the language of class warfare he calls on a hostile...

North Africa’s Arab Spring economies - Tunisia, Libya, Egypt - face new blow if EU slips into recession.

Assessing effect of new recession on sector would lay groundwork for another round of bailouts

Japan’s economy shrank much more than expected in the first quarter and slipped into recession after the triple blow of the March earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis hit business and consumer spending and tore apart supply chains

Last Christmas Rob Grant got a lot of press with his timely Recession Wreaths website. The tongue in cheek site offered wreaths decorated with cut up credit cards and pink slips! Well, this Christmas Grant is at it again with a new faux ecommerce platform at RecessionGiftBaskets.com!

By Tom Doggett and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. oil demand through 2035 is not expected to return to the peak levels reached before fuel consumption fell sharply due to high petroleum prices and the recession, the head of the Energy Information Administration said on Monday. [More]

By Scott Moritz With clouds of economic gloom darkening the tech horizon, mobile phone sales - a former bright spot in the gadget world - look to be slowing. Tech buyers went away early this fall, and as recession fears intensified, orders have continued to dry up. There have been a number of ominous signs. First Cisco (CSCO) slashed its outlook and froze hiring. Then Wall Street analysts slash...