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June 22, 2010: A few weeks ago, one of the mechanical sharks from the 1975 blockbuster movie Jaws was discovered in a junkyard in Los Angeles--a sorry end to a fearsome beast. In movies, beasts are dispatched in a matter of hours. In real life, not so much.
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May 7, 2010: The latest time use statistics might reveal the fuel of the Tea Party fire: the growing television addiction among older men. No one watches more TV than men aged 65 or older.
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February 11, 2010: She gets it: Elizabeth Warren, Harvard Law professor and chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP, is one of the few who knows what is happening to the middle class.
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January 12, 2010: The economic downturn has not only emptied bank accounts and turned neighborhoods into ghost towns, it has derailed many of the demographic trends that businesses had been counting on for customers. Which trends will get back on track and which will be permanently detoured? Here's what you can expect.
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September 15th, 2009: Brace yourself. The 2008 income statistics released by the Census Bureau last week document widespread economic pain. Unfortunately, more is to come.
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April 29, 2009: Take a look at any economic indicator lately, and you're likely to swoon as the trend line veers into a vertical plunge. This is called cliff diving. It is a common sport in economics, but rare in demographics. Demographic change is slow and steady. Demographic trends rarely dive off cliffs, but they occasionally jump off curbs. Case in point: the latest geographic mobility statistics.
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