Whilst many Northern Europeans are busy planning their next summer holiday in September the year before, summer holiday catalogues in Italy are not even printed till March!
Credit card debt rose by 45 percent in November from the year before, up from a 20 percent rise from 2008 to 2009, according to Esteban Fernández Medrano, an economist at MacroVision Consulting.
"Since June 2007, the difference in the unemployment numbers for the corresponding month of the year before has been getting worse and worse and worse.
And that's May the year before.
In June, about 90,000 tourists came, compared with 61,000 that month the year before.
Sales in the Americas declined 10.9percentt from April and 32.1percentt from May the year before, the association said.
New orders for machine tools continued their decline in February, dropping 11.1percentt from the same month the year before, the National Machine Tool Builders Association reported yesterday.
The trade group said that February was the eighth consecutive month that new orders have declined, compared with the same month the year before.
In February, the Mirror recorded 45,000 bulks, up from 38,500 in the same month the year before, a rise of 14%.
There were 465 bomb attacks against coalition troops in May, more than twice the number from the same month the year before.
This past November saw 5,075 bankruptcy filings daily, a thirty-seven-per-cent increase over the same month the year before.
