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Economic Outlook: Plastics Industry

…list, affecting goods across consumer, household, industrial, transportation, chemical, energy, and infrastructure sectors — all intersecting with the plastics industry value chain. Labor markets softening? Labor markets are showing signs…

…you put a price on it? And if you do so, in order for the North to pay up, does that mean that you endorse markets for the environment? And…

More on the Mortgage Mess

…right to foreclose. While the Administration walks the GOP-favored walk of decreasing government/increasing private markets, it nonetheless leaves government as the one that backstops the private mortgage market, retaining the…

The Alpha and the Omega of mid-2007

…that housing is stabilizing. The downturn in stocks crimps Americans’ wealth, and turbulence in credit markets is sparking fears that loans will be costlier or harder to get…. Some business…