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articles 1 to 10 of 657 When Dividends Pay Dividends -- and When They Don't January's fiscal cliff deal in Washington removed a cloud of uncertainty that has hovered over the tax rate on dividend payments for years.
This report is also available as a PDF file . CAMBRIDGE September 20, 2010 - The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday by conference call. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in June 2009. The trough marks the end of the recession that began in December 2007 and the beginning of an expansion. The recession lasted 18 months, which makes it the longest of any recession since World War II. Previously the longest postwar recessions were those of 1973-75 and 1981-82, both of which lasted 16 months.
