The eye of the recession storm is said to have passed. The world is now slowly recovering from the greatest economic bust since the Depression. The US says it has edged out of the economic meltdown, Australia is said to have survived the recession easiest and earliest.
Anyone who comes from a typhoon-riddled country could attest [...]

While Australia’s stock market lost 59 percent and a 5.7 percent unemployment rate also assailed the country, it is ‘the only developed country to avoid technical recession.’ Australia has breezed through the global economic downturn ahead of any other developed country.
The country’s ‘stock market has bounced back almost 30 percent since mid-July, home prices are [...]

In 1982, Starbucks was originally marketed as America’s “third place,” with ‘home’ and ‘work’ as the other two. 20 years later in 2002, it was the dominant specialty-coffee brand across North America, with practically no advertising expenses except for point-of-sale collaterals and local store marketing efforts. Also in that year, Starbucks was selling to 20 [...]