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...first is that cellular handset sales are slowing in developed nations. In the U.S., by some estimates, there are more handsets than people. The same problem has hit carriers in Japan...
...lubricate functioning capital markets. If financial institutions, as creditors, do not trust their debtors—be they individuals, investment funds, or other banks—these institutions will not lend. As the grand dame of economic historians, Anna Schwartz, said in October: “The basic problem for the markets is [uncertainty] that the balance sheets of financial firms are credible...
...resources to accommodate its army of young economists. But this is not the case. Even before the elimination of the program, most economics concentrators were blocked from the seminars due to the small number of spots. Therefore, the loss of the junior seminars is symptomatic of a larger problem with the department’s inability to educate its students in a manner comparable to the smaller concentrations...
...complaints and flagging profits. At Small Plates, which opened in late 2007, co-owner Jerome R. Picca said that all the tables had been booked a week and a half in advance of the holiday. “You would never have guessed there was some kind of economic problem in the country based on what the sales and tipping were on Valentine’s Day,” he said. At Upstairs on the Square, the outlook was rosy, even outside of the holiday. Matthew C. Lishanky, director of operations, said that Upstairs has seen little...
...Obama is keenly aware of the limitations on what his reinforcements can achieve. "I am absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban, the spread of extremism in that region solely through military means," he told an interviewer on Tuesday. But more troops are needed simply to arrest and begin to reverse a perilous slide in NATO's fortunes in Afghanistan...