Whenever you have a collapse in a particular output price -- and we certainly saw a lot of that following Asia's decline -- it places a lot of pressure on companies to deal with keeping their revenues up. In that context consolidation isn't a big surprise
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For example, the lowest-wealth quartile has no net worth on balance, while the next quartile has controlled only about 3 percent of the total, and the top 10 percent have held about two- thirds. These figures have changed little over the past decade, a fact that attests to the difficulty that many households have in accumulating wealth.Ed McKelvey
Fed officials do not want to risk overreaction by the markets, ... This would undermine financial conditions at a time when the Fed needs growth to stay above its potential rate.
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The fiscal picture wasn't very good before and it's worse now.
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Movements in the unemployment rate will tell Fed officials whether growth is absorbing unused capacity.
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Seen in this light, ... the employee discount program was an enormously successful marketing coup.
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It may just be that, in this slow-motion labor market that we have, a lot of younger people have opted for schooling that will take them out of the job market for a while,
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