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Tips Organize Your Financial Plan

By on Monday, September 12th, 2011 | No Comments

Tips Organize Your Financial Plan Organize Your Financial Plan to make the transaction a personal or family becomes more apparent. In fact many felt to set up a financial plan between the necessary and unnecessary. But there is no harm if we can implement it. Already a lot of literature that discusses this at times [...]

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By on Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 | No Comments

Stock market Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. In Stocks for the Long Run, Siegel mentions that since 1948, ten recessions were preceded by a stock market decline, by a lead time of 0 to 13 months (average 5.7 months), while ten stock market declines of greater than 10% in the DJIA [...]

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financial asset price bubble can cause a recession

By on Saturday, August 20th, 2011 | No Comments

The bursting of a real estate or financial asset price bubble can cause a recession. For example, economist Richard Koo wrote that Japan’s “Great Recession” that began in 1990 was a “balance sheet recession.” It was triggered by a collapse in land and stock prices, which caused Japanese firms to have negative equity, meaning their [...]

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The Business Cycle Dating Committee

By on Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 | No Comments

There is an old joke among economists that states: A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job. The difference between the two terms is not very well understood for one simple reason: There is not a universally agreed upon definition. If you ask 100 different economists [...]

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Definition of a Recession and its Symptoms

By on Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 | No Comments

A recession is a period of longer than twelve months during which the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product of an economy is negative. For the National Bureau of Economic Research (National Bureau of Economic Research) U.S. recession seen as any decline in economic activity continued for two or more consecutive quarters. When there is [...]

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