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Does 2010's 4th. Quarter Results Signal Good Times?

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Obviously, more people fell they would be worse off than in the future than they did in the fourth quarter of 2010. The speech was more than half over before the president got around to the government spending crisis. To balance the budget, the county laid off 23 public employees at the end of 2010 and raised its property tax by 2.5%.

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2 Debt Instruments Pose Peril to Millions of Investors

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Investors should pay close attention to this development, because this is exactly what happened before the 2007-2009 financial crisis. 27): Just 35 percent of new leveraged loans issued in 2016's first half had traditional covenants that require regular financial check-ups, compared with 100 percent in 2010.

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Wise Economic Decision Making

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percentage points from GDP, based on the average of 2010's first three quarters. Some economists have been assailed for having financial ties to the big banks that did so much to precipitate the financial crisis. Their intricate mathematical models largely failed to predict the 2008 financial crisis.

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Corner Office Shakeups

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The rush to change corporate leadership is a turnabout from the management standstill that set in during the financial crisis. A 2010 survey of 140 North American CEOs and directors found the respondents' boards averaged only two hours a year on CEO succession. CEO turnover declined from 12.7 percent in 2007 to 9.4

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