Manufacturing is already in recession and demand for services is starting to slacken, its latest surveys show.
The primary advantage to owning health care properties is that they tend to be recession resistant in that demand for health services is relatively inelastic.
The country emerged in 2000 from a punishing three-year recession thanks to strong demand in EU export markets.
Not only were they hit by thoughts that a recession in Europe would ding demand, but being valued in greenbacks made the goods become more costly as the dollar rose.
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The heightened costs came about after falling demand during the recession led to cutbacks in supply, yet consumer demand has returned up ahead of supply, leading to the price pickup.
In the recession, loan demand from some companies was strong.
There are good reasons for thinking that old patterns are about to change and that the current recession-driven downturn in the demand for Western graduates will morph into something structural.
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What is already clear, and makes worse scenarios more likely, is that growth in corporate profits is certain to slow this year, recession or not, due to sluggish growth in demand, rising interest costs (caused by refinancings of debt secured when long-term interest rates were lower than today) and accelerating depreciation costs.
The front cabins of airplanes haven't yet seen a strong return in demand since the recession.
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The subsequent recession and surge in unemployment dinged the demand for many mortgage-related businesses and Realogy was not spared, seeing its cash flow plunge and relying on additional borrowing to stay afloat.
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Either way, at whatever level, the real culprit in this recession is a crisis of demand.
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Self-storage landlords were pinched by drops in demand during the recent recession but remained stable with few defaults.
Those countries pushed into recession by weaker American demand will, in turn, buy less from both the United States and the rest of the world, magnifying the initial effect.
In fact, low gas prices, along with sluggish demand for electricity in the aftermath of the recession, have kept power prices subdued (petrol prices are another matter).
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But for most jobs and particularly with a recession looming supply and demand look in rough balance.
Gillespie is absolutely right that a number of factors contributed to the fall in demand that we call a recession: the housing bubble, the financial crisis, various policy mistakes by the president and Congress.
It is true that Mr Obama's solution to the recession spending public money in order to stimulate demand and trying to prevent a run on the banks is supported by most economists.
Experts said there has been an uptick in demand for warehouse space since the recession, as online retailers and fuel-conscious companies generally look to store their products near major population centers.
Like resource-producing Canada and Australia, which barely felt the great recession, these economies have been boosted by continued growth in demand from countries like India and China.
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All that huge amount of government borrowing to pay for the war stopping, there should have been a plunge in aggregate demand and thus something between a recession and another Depression.
Consumers with excellent credit are now more in-demand than ever as the Great Recession wreaked havoc on the personal finances of many and credit card companies are finding it increasingly difficult to profit off consumers with below-average credit scores.
The recession in the eurozone manufacturing area is expected to continue as global demand loses momentum.
Now, given that the severe recession of 2008-2009 was caused by a sudden fall in demand, and given that demand and NGDP are the same thing, it would make sense for the Fed to increase NGDP in order to accelerate the economic recovery.
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Brazil's Aracruz Cellulose lost 84% as demand for its pulp shrank in the face of recession.
The only sector where there has been continuing employment growth through the recession is self-employment (ok, so developers are in big demand too but many of those are freelance talent).
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With much of Europe facing recession, political tension in the Middle East and North Africa has hit demand for some key holiday destinations and underpinned high oil prices, making holiday travel more expensive.
Margins increased 30 basis points in gross profit compared with the year-ago period as the company tested a strategy to focus on broadband and mobile connection plans in place of its electronics, which have dropped in demand as the economy has slowly emerged from a recession.
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In the first and second phases of recession, the answer clearly lay with demand.
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The great recession obscured this process for a while by causing a sudden huge drop in oil demand and a resultant swoon in prices.
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