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The Great Reset Initiative is an economic recovery plan drawn up by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] The project was launched in June 2020, and a video featuring the then-Prince of Wales Charles was released to mark its launch. [2]
The early 1980s recession was a severe economic recession that affected much of the world between approximately the start of 1980 and 1982. [2] [1] [3] Long-term effects of the early 1980s recession contributed to the Latin American debt crisis, long-lasting slowdowns in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan African countries, [3] the US savings and loan crisis, and a general adoption of neoliberal ...
The Reagan era or the Age of Reagan is a periodization of recent American history used by historians and political observers to emphasize that the conservative "Reagan Revolution" led by President Ronald Reagan in domestic and foreign policy had a lasting impact.
In addition, the media and entertainment industry during the 1980s glamorized the stock market and financial sector (e.g. the 1987 movie Wall Street), causing many young people to pursue careers as brokers, investors, or bankers instead of manufacturing and making it unlikely that any of the lost industrial base would be restored any time soon.
After failing to gain traction during the weak and brief recovery from the 1980 downturn, weakness in manufacturing and housing caused by rising interest rates began to have an expanded effect on related sectors beginning in mid-1981. [2] Job losses resumed, this time expanding to nearly all employment sectors through the end of 1982.
Obama: The 1980s Called, They Want Their Policy Back. DailyFinance Staff. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:40 PM.
This is a timeline of country and capital changes around the world since 2000. It includes dates of declarations of independence , changes in country name , changes of capital city or name, and changes in territory such as the annexation , cession , concession , occupation , or secession of land.
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.