Word: overhang
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TIME: Before they've worked off what they call overhang...
PRICE: It's not just the inventory overhang. Companies were spending tens of billions of dollars more than their cash flow. They have to rationalize and spend what they can afford to spend, not what they want to spend...
...they now rest at just .05%. The Japanese government has spent more money on public works than any other country in the world, but blowing all that cash has been useless. There is a hole in the center of Japan--a deep lack of confidence that comes from an overhang of trash loans from the early '90s and from a decade of failed policy. Smart Japanese consumers are nervously waiting for those loans to blow up. So encouraging consumers to start spending is like encouraging a man strapped to a time bomb to fix his hair. They have other things...
...good news is business inventories - the corporate hangover from the great bubble-burst of late '00 - are still on the decline, dropping 0.2 percent in March after a similar drop in February. The bad news is that was March, and this is May, and another kind of overhang reduction may still be underway: layoffs...
...acrylic for the roof. "When they started on the house, I told people that the cows would eat up my house," Alberta Bryant jokes, recalling her nervousness about having her home constructed from stuccoed-over livestock fodder. Yet six years later, the building is still sturdy. The translucent overhang filtering light onto the porch's yellow columns and the cavernous green Quonset-hut-shaped rooms jutting from the back make the house a cool place to relax during a lazy afternoon...