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...permanently homeless men. Mother Teresa's nuns have set up a soup kitchen in the second richest nation on Earth. The economy is shrinking, and the official unemployment rate has risen to 5%, highest in a generation. In recent weeks, the blue-chip stars of the country's manufacturing sector--the makers of computer chips, TVs and PCs, such as Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC--have announced that they will shed tens of thousands of jobs...
...impressive records on the Street. Returns on timber investments were up 4.2% last year, while the S&P sank 9.1%. In the past 30 years, the annual average return on timber was 15.2%, against 13.2% for the S&P 500 index. Behind the strong performance: a resilient home-building sector. If housing stays strong, so will timber. As there's no mutual fund that's a pure play on timber, investors need to seek out specific companies, like Plum Creek Timber (PCL, up 10% this year) or Rayonier...
...Restoring the territory's competitive foundation can be done?but at a price. The local dollar could be repegged to the U.S. dollar at a lower rate?from the current 7.8 to 10, say?and exporters, the services sector and the tourist trade would grow while consumers would suffer. But the government has ruled out repegging, insisting, mistakenly, that a change would lead to destabilizing currency speculation...
...Social groups are an important sector to look at when looking at all of the opportunities for women on campus,” she added...
...Labor Department reported Friday that manufacturing, the sector of the economy unequivocably in a recession for a full year, cut 141,000 jobs - 141,000 workers from their payrolls in August. For the machinist who has to go home and tell his wife he?s out of a job, that?s bad. And it?s a sign of how glum everybody is that Wall Street sold hand-over-fist on the news - with the Dow shedding 240 points by early afternoon. (These days, investors are so strung out by this slowdown - and the Fed is easing so implacably - that most...