Wondering how the recession will impact various industries? Check out Recession Insight on IBISWorld.

This report was updated on January 9, 2009 and provides predictions for the 700 industry reports contained in this database.

Highlights
The key forecasts of IBISWorld’s Macroeconomic Briefing Paper are:

• The US economy will decline by 1.6% in 2009 and will not return to its normal course until 2011.
• Unemployment will continue to rise into the first quarter of 2010 and peak at 8.9%.
• Retail sales will fall by 2.2% in 2009, with greater most pressure in the first half of the year.
• Business investment will stay negative until the second half of 2010.
• Residential investment and housing starts will not return to 2008 levels until 2011.

The following books have recently been added to the Library’s collection:

• A new paradigm for global school systems : education for a long and happy life. LC191 .S6865 2007
• Buddhism in China, a historical survey. BL1430 .C486
• Environment, natural systems, and development : an economic valuation guide. HC79.E5 E573 1983
• Meaningful course revision : enhancing academic engagement using student learning data. LB2822.75 .W44 2006
• Motion pictures : stories of SR 26. HE356.W3 M68 2000
• The practice of Chinese Buddhism. BL1430 .W4 v.1
• The southern expansion of the Chinese people. DS740.6 .F58
• What is curriculum theory? LB1570 .P552 2004

You can locate these books using Griffin. To see what else we have added to our collection recently, take a look at our New Books page.

IBISWorld offers over 700 extensive and current industry reports. To access this great new resource go to the library’s Databases or Databases by Subject – Business links.