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...during the Great Depression. "If price deflation leads to asset deflation and that leads to further deterioration, then that will lead to the collapse of the economy," says JPMorgan Securities chief economist Masaaki Kanno. Deflation has periodically plagued the Japanese economy for the last 15 years, ever since a spectacular asset bubble burst in the early 1990s. One of the country's revered economic figures is Korekiyo Takahashi, a former prime minister and finance minister who is credited with reining in raging deflation in the early 1930s, sooner than the U.S. was able to fend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Latest Economic Ailment: Deflation | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

...decision, though, for two reasons. First, as great as it was to see a federal judge accuse the Corps of "negligence" and "nonfeasance" and other legally awful behavior, the case actually turned on a technicality of sorts - and may well be overturned on appeal. Believe it or not, the spectacular incompetence of the Corps may ultimately help its defense. And second, even if the Corps does lose on appeal, the resulting embarrassment - and the potential fiscal nightmare for the country - would be unlikely to promote the kinds of changes that would prevent another Corps-made disaster. (See pictures of recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Katrina Ruling Prevent Another Disaster? | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...students who camped out at two o’clock yesterday morning hoping to see a spectacular display of shooting stars said they were underwhelmed...

Author: By Benjamin Naddaff-Hafrey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meteors Disappoint Watching Students | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

...rock legend Lou Reed, the immense 39,000-sq-m space was renovated by architectural firm Atelier Novembre. It boasts artist studios, designer boutiques, a café, a bookshop, a children's area and even a free-standing pizza truck under its soaring glass roof, which echoes the spectacular glass-domed Grand Palais rather more closely than the set of Six Feet Under. (See 50 essential travel tips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Paris Funeral Home Becomes an Art Center | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Sophomore goalkeeper Austin Harms made a spectacular save, and Nyamekye followed with a last-ditch block on the rebound, to keep the score level...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tourney Bound | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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