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See the original post: German Manufacturing Declines Again, New Export Orders Fall at Fastest Pace Since April 2009
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The HSBC China Manufacturing PMIâ„¢ shows Manufacturing sector operating conditions worsened at the sharpest rate in 41 months. Summary August data signalled a renewed decline in Chinese manufacturing output, as new business decreased at the sharpest rate in nine months
The Pew Research center ponders The Lost Decade of the Middle Class . Since 2000, the middle class has shrunk in size, fallen backward in income and wealth, and shed some—but by no means all—of its characteristic faith in the future. These stark assessments are based on findings from a new nationally representative Pew Research Center survey that includes 1,287 adults who describe themselves as middle class, supplemented by the Center’s analysis of data from the U.S
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View the original here: Brussels Pushes for Another "All Powerful" Banking Committee, Headed by ECB, In Spite of Objections by…
Inquiring minds note China, Germany Plan to Settle More Trade in Yuan, Euros . Germany and China plan to conduct an increasing amount of their trade in euros and yuan, the two nations said in a joint statement after talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing on Thursday
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Jeff Harding at the Daily Capitalist asks Why Does Hyperinflation Occur? In every modern case of hyperinflation the decision to inflate was a political one, not an economic one