Mental health charities say they have seen a surge in calls to their helplines since the start of the recession.

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Calls to mental health lines rise

The recession has not stopped luxury shopping and ostentatiousness from thriving, and few experiences in New York exemplified this more than the Luxury Review trade show.

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Big City: Still Flaunting the Luxe Life

Efforts in Washington State to address a resurgent childhood ailment have been hobbled by years of recession-induced cutbacks that have hollowed out public health departments.

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Whooping Cough Epidemic Hits Washington State

With their economy in recession and facing new belt-tightening measures, the Dutch are showing grim determination.

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Dutch Confront the Euro Crisis

As recession data is released in Spain.

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Euro Nations Reconsider Austerity

The UK returns to recession, after a sharp fall in construction leads to the economy shrinking by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012.

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Economy in double-dip recession

Figures out on Wednesday will show whether the UK economy grew in the first three months of the year or has returned to recession.

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Figures to show recession status

The UK may have avoided a double-dip recession, but the economy will stall for the rest of the year, an independent forecasting group says.

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UK economy ‘to stall until 2013′

The UK economy will contract in the first three months of 2012, taking the country back into recession, an international think tank suggests.

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OECD predicts recession in the UK

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has left his mark on economic history not once but twice, using almost every weapon in his arsenal to quell the financial panic of 2008 and then to lift the U.S. economy out of the recession that followed. Read full article > >

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On unemployment, is Bernanke aggressive enough?

The business school might be facing a new business model. If one area of higher education was reshaped by the Great Recession, it might be the beleaguered B-school . At the peak of the downturn, applications to programs for a master of business administration hit record highs in the Washington region and across the nation. Then, just as suddenly, demand plummeted. Read full article > >

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Downturn forces area business schools to adapt

Fed says majority could withstand severe recession.

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Most U.S. Banks Pass ‘Stress Tests’

David Wolman can envision a time when we won’t need to use cash. In his cashless society, people can text money. But I’m not buying it. Didn’t we learn something from the Great Recession, when an over-reliance on all things not cash nearly took down our economy? Read full article > >

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The pros and cons of ditching cash for electronic currency

Bloomberg reports that U.S. consumer confidence is almost back to pre-recession levels. But is that actually good news? Over at the Big Picture, James Bianco says it’s not clear why “consumer confidence” is a useful metric. It’s not correlated with jobs. Or retail sales. Or anything except recent stock-market headlines: Read full article > >

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‘The world’s most useless economic statistic’

If the recession is hitting the financially precarious dance world especially hard, it is also sparking new thinking. Take Company E , a start-up troupe that gave its first local performance Saturday at a sold-out Sidney Harman Hall with “Next: Israel,” a program of works by Israeli choreographers. Read full article > >

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Critic’s review of Company E’s debut, “Next: Israel”