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US unemployment to rise further

On January 8, 2009, president-elect Barack Obama predicated that the US might have lost the most jobs in 2008 since the Second World War. He was right: The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released unemployment data on Friday (Jan 9) showing an unemployment rate of 7.2%. Worse, the unemployed numbers were revised downwards by 1,54,000 for November and December 2008. Around [...]

A recess from recession

There seems to be nothing but bad news for economic optimists looking forward to the Obama administration to come to power this January. Last month, USA TODAY, predicted that the US economy is expected to emerge from the recession sometime around mid-2009. Unfortunately, this may not be entirely true. In fact, if current events and happenings [...]

New year. New perspectives.

I started blogging way back in 2003 with Blogger. Back then, there were only a few thousand blogs. After writing a couple of posts on the Taj Mahal at Agra, I moved on to blurty, mainly because it’s policies allowed mature content. After two years of blogging on blurty, I switched to MoveableType. Soon enough, MovableType’s licensing policies started [...]