"Small firms are resilient and will survive the current fragile economic outlook, but to avoid an economic slowdown this data should be a wake-up call for our elected politicians," he added.
Other articles include a look at the conflicted feelings of the so-called 1 percent; how you can benefit from an "umbrella" insurance policy; staying flexible amid an uncertain tax planning outlook; and how to avoid getting seasick amid churning markets.
It cited three reasons: a better global outlook as Europe continues to avoid a crisis; the weakness of the dollar, which lifts exports; and the rising stock market.
"Our tax system, as it currently exists, faces challenges," Lacy wrote, before offering a "philosophical analogy": "Imagine someone who wants to have a purely realistic and Aristotelian outlook and metaphysic and wants to avoid thinking of how some of the radical insights of Gödel, Wittgenstein, Davidson, Derrida and Deleuze might chip away at his system.
The shaky outlook suggested that Deutsche Bank, which managed to avoid taking any write-downs related to subprime mortgages in the fourth quarter, is not out of the woods yet.
The maneuvering came as the Congressional Budget Office said today that the rapidly recovering economy should improve the federal budget outlook a bit but probably not enough to avoid deficits for at least the next few years.
[C6.] Deficits Expected in Federal Budget Officials said the rapidly recovering economy should improve the federal budget outlook a bit but probably not enough to avoid deficits for at least the next few years.
The International Energy Agency has set the scene, with the timely warning in its new World Energy Outlook that we are way off track to avoid dangerous climate change, and that the window for effective action is closing fast.
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To gain more insight into that (and to avoid an overly biased outlook), I reached out to Dina Kaplan, who is the COO of blip.tv.
