Economic stagnation

...sector banks WestLB [WDLG.UL], HSH Nordbank [HSH.UL] and BayernLB [BAYB.UL] suffering writedowns and requiring bailouts. [ID:nLJ534241] Stagnation in major economies was a further risk, and would increase negative feedback between the...

In this article: Bundesbank, Balance sheet, Commerzbank, Recession, Unemployment, Stagnation, WestLB, BayernLB, and Deutsche Bank

...expectations," Sekine says. Japan's top expert on herbivores, Maki Fukasawa, believes they were born from the lost decade of economic stagnation. She christened the tribe in 2006 and recently wrote a book called The Herbivore Generation,...

In this article: Dessert, Japan, Shortcake, Economics, Sex and the City, and Tokyo

...own leaders. With the same energy and determination that he put into bringing Washington back from the brink of permanent economic stagnation, Pollin made the area's corporate treasurers cough up on behalf of the developing world's poor. I...

In this article: Abe Pollin, Washington, Wizards, Verizon Center, Unicef, and Cough

...about the possibility of deflation (systematically falling prices) caused by a double-dip recession. Japan in the 1990s suffered economic stagnation for a decade because of deflation, and the US is determined to avoid that path. The Fed will...

In this article: Recession, India, Inflation, Deflation, The Fed, Unemployment, US, Bankruptcy, and Economists

...are less satisfactory. Politicians are slowly coming to realise that refusing to embrace free trade contributes towards long-term economic stagnation. The lurch into protectionism around the world in the 1930s was a contributory factor to...

In this article: WTO, Doha Round, Lake Geneva, US, French cuisine, and Inflation

...of a "sense of crisis" over falling prices - the problem that plagued Japan during what's known as its "lost decade" of economic stagnation in the 1990s. Fujii's comments came as the Bank of Japan (BoJ) kept interest rates at 0.1% and...

In this article: Deflation, Japan, Recession, Bank of Japan, Capitalism, and Credit Suisse

...save - the realistic prospect ahead - then if the government does not spend and borrow we will face a prolonged period of economic stagnation. This, warns Richard Koo, chief economist of Nomura International, is what confronted Japan...

In this article: Basel, Derivative, Gordon Brown, and Japan

...ugly U-shaped recession may turn into a more virulent L-shaped near-depression or stag-deflation (a deadly combination of economic stagnation and price deflation) like the one Japan experienced in the 1990s after its real estate and equity...

In this article: Nouriel Roubini, Recession, Deflation, RGE Monitor, International Monetary Fund, Japan, and U.S.

...to resemble Japan's malaise in the 1990s when heavy debt, high unemployment and sparse consumer spending caused a decade of economic stagnation. In a speech last week, Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, said:...

In this article: Unemployment, White House, E mail, Recession, Black Friday, Thanksgiving, World War II, and Dallas Morning News

...to be rid of the Soviet occupiers, the secret police, the shootings of demonstrators, the decades of shortages or the economic stagnation. But by the time I paid my first visit to Berlin in 2003, I was surprised to see kiosks popping...

In this article: Clarence Page, Beneficiaries, Shock, Good Bye Lenin, German Democratic Republic, Fidel Castro, Roger Ebert, Berlin, Democracy, and Commie