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Source: Bloomberg.com
The decline in U.S. manufacturing deepened in December as demand for such products as cars, appliances and furniture reached the lowest level since at least 1948, signaling further cutbacks in factory jobs and production this year.
The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index fell to 32.4, below economists’ forecasts and the lowest level since [...]

Source: MyRecordJournal.com
Members of Congress are due to get their annual raises this month, but many of their constituents believe they should forgo the bump in pay in light of tough economic times.
“How can they even think about it?” asked Kathy Krystock, of Meriden.
Because of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, the 2.8 percent, or $4,700, [...]

Source:  The Guardian
The private sector will be asked to manage and run a communications database that will keep track of everyone’s calls, emails, texts and internet use under a key option contained in a consultation paper to be published next month by Jacqui Smith, the home secretary.
A cabinet decision to put the management of the [...]

Source: Los Angeles Times
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev paused in the last, quiet hours of a dying year to sign into law a controversial bill that eliminates jury trials for “crimes against the state,” a move that lawyers and human rights groups fear will be the start of a dangerous exertion of Kremlin control over government [...]

Source: Reuters
Britain is becoming a nation of worriers, according to a new survey, with the financial crisis giving people ever more reason to fret about their lives.
The average person now spends 2-1/4 hours of every day worrying — six and half years of the average life span — a figure up 30 minutes a day [...]