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...deepest recession since the 1930s cast a shadow over the year, as the U.S. economy hemorrhaged jobs, manufacturing continued to erode, and housing prices failed to recover from the previous year's crash. Unemployment rose to 10.2%--the highest rate in 26 years--despite the Obama Administration's stimulus efforts, which pumped billions into the economy. Detroit was hit especially hard: Ford saw a steep drop in sales, Chrysler was taken over by Italian firm Fiat, and GM briefly entered bankruptcy. One bright spot was Wall Street, where stocks reversed much of 2008's decline. The economy showed encouraging growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

Even these figures leave out people who say they want a job but haven't looked in the past year. Economist and gadfly John Williams, whose online newsletter Shadow Government Statistics has gained a big following lately, adds them in, makes a few tweaks and gets to 21.8% unemployment in November, down from 22.1% in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Jobless Rate | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...pictures of the long shadow of Ayatullah Khomeini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Opposition Loses a Mentor But Gains a Martyr | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...helping countries cut back on deforestation - a goal that many had hoped might be one of the few concrete achievements from Copenhagen. The Europeans, still the only bloc of nations with truly binding carbon caps, were unhappy, hoping for a far stronger agreement. "There is light and there is shadow," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a strong proponent for ambitious climate action. "The only alternative to the agreement would have been failure." (See pictures of Himalayan glaciers under threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Climate Compromise Leaves a Bitter Aftertaste | 12/20/2009 | See Source »

...That's not how Lefilleul's Secours Catholique day center, due to begin operating in January, is viewed across the Channel, where some hostile press reports dubbed it Sangatte II. "This is another gesture of contempt from France to Britain," said U.K. Conservative Party shadow immigration minister Damian Green. "It will encourage more potential illegal immigrants to try to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Calais, Illegal Migrants Driven Underground | 12/15/2009 | See Source »

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