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The National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) reported that US ski areas hosted 60.54 million skier/snowboarder visits in 2010/11, the second best season on record. One of the most interesting demographic shifts flies in the face of conventional wisdom: There has been a trend in recent years toward...
05/30/2012
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Bowden's Market Barometer reported in the April/May issue that the McGraw-Hill Companies (www.mcgraw-hill.com) recently released findings from its Green Home Builders and Remodelers Study. According to the study, the construction of green homes is projected to see a five-fold increase over the n...
05/15/2012
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Bowden’s Market Barometer discussed the declining foreclosure activity in the April/May edition, and continuing coverage on the subject indicates that the trend has legs! The volume of homes entering the foreclosure process was down more than 30% in March. This flies in the face of prediction...
05/09/2012
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The election of new heads of government in both France and Greece suggests a majority of voters weary of austerity measures that have so far failed to pull Europe’s fat out of the fire. Britain’s Conservative-led coalition was also battered recently as local voters favored the opposition Labour...
05/07/2012
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Employment seemingly disappointed in April, adding just 115,000 jobs on the heels of an upwardly revised March estimate of 154,000 jobs and 259,000 jobs in February. The result: unemployment dropped to 8.1%, or as some pundits would say, “changed little.” While that purview may be accurate on s...
05/04/2012
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