That's got to be worrisome for investors who have already seen what the combination of a price war and declining demand have done to chip giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, which posted lousy quarters and cut back their future projections.
The United Nations estimates 4,500 have been killed this year.Over the years, abusive behaviour by the Sri Lankan army and the refusal of the government to offer genuine political concessions to Tamil demands have done much to sustain the dreadful Tigers.
Further, I believe those demands have done more harm than good for aspiring American luxury brands, including Coach, Kors, Tiffany and Ralph Lauren.
But under any supply-side interpretation, the Fed's decision to respond by trying to pump up demand, which it has done by vastly increasing the monetary base, ought to have been inflationary.
If China's epic demand for commodities has done much to disguise that fact in recent years, a slew of changes at the top of the big Western mining firms is a timely reminder that it is still true.
But there is one bit of cheer, at least for airlines: the supply of seats in the American domestic market is not likely to outpace demand, as it has done in previous up cycles.
The military has promised to rebuild the church and meet the demands, but this has done little to assuage the anger.
With strategic oversight over all forms of transport, these new bodies could help create demand for buses, as TfL has done, as well as shaking up the market.
Republican conservatives have used this argument to demand lower taxes, though it has done nothing to reduce government debt.
Then there is the factor that nobody will admit to: the policy of demanding harsh, front-loaded austerity has done unnecessary harm.
