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Welcome to the Recession

by John P.

Dow Jones SlumpFolks, I’m going to go ahead and call it, even though no one else seems to be willing to do so. We’re officially in a recession.

The National Bureau of Economic Research defines a recession as:

A recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.

Let’s take a look at some of the leading indicators, shall we?
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Beautiful People Deserve More Money

January 15, 2008

Sensationalist title, I know. But apparently it’s true. The Economist cites a study by Dr. Daniel Hamermesh of the University of Texas: The accumulating evidence suggests that physical characteristics do give clues about intelligence, that such clues are picked up by other people, and that these clues are also associated with beauty. And other work [...]