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The pricing of McDonald's, highlighted by dollar-menu items like apple pies, side salads and yogurt, plus cheap combo meals - burger or sandwich, fries and a drink - is a key strength during the recession. In particular, consumers are fleeing casual, family chain restaurants for the convenience and savings of...
As General Motors fights for survival, the catalog of its recent woes must include the name Fiat. Not only did a 2000 partnership between the U.S. and Italian carmakers sputter badly - as the two companies struggled to find consumer-friendly models and integrate their production facilities - but also GM was...
The park's reliance on the U.S., where consumer demand for electronics is plunging, means companies based there are suffering from unprecedented reductions in orders. Even the world's largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), recently asked its 20,000 employees to take an extra day off every...
The deferring of critical decisions about how to rescue the financial system, housing, rising unemployment, and consumer spending will be blamed on the months of transition between the election of a new president and his inauguration. The observation is fair but it is also pointless. If a runaway train is...
?Yet the traditional tariff is not the only tool governments are using these days to influence trade. More important perhaps is the financial support that states are offering to industrial firms to aid them in the global competition for a shrinking pool of consumer demand. Most obvious of these...