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ThinkstockThe first quarter of 2014 was painfully slow. You likely now know what the blame was — weather. It is…
ThinkstockThis Friday’s unemployment and nonfarm payrolls report has the foundation for another strong jobs number. Two preliminary readings are giving…
ThinkstockHalf the people who live in Illinois and Connecticut would like to move away. A big majority of people who…
ThinkstockThe two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting began Tuesday and will culminate Wednesday afternoon with an announcement from Federal…
ThinkstockThe Conference Board reported Tuesday morning that its consumer confidence index for the month of April fell slightly from 83.9…
ThinkstockThe median household income of Americans has not increased in a decade, when adjusted for what has been modest inflation.…
If aging Americans need to work longer because their retirement funds are small, then the average age of retirement should…
ThinkstockBeing competitive among the manufacturing nations of the world amounts to more than just low wages. In fact, several emerging…
ThinkstockIn 2013, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio in the fast food industry was more than 1,000-to-1. Workers’ situation must be improving,…
ThinkstockThe final April reading on the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index rose to 84.1, near its highest reading…
ThinkstockWide open spaces, clean air and low population density appear to be attractive to many Americans. That, at least, may…
ThinkstockRussia paid for the instability it has helped create in Ukraine and the surrounding areas. S&P cut its foreign currency…
ThinkstockThere are more than 600,000 bridges in the U.S. and the average age of a bridge is 42 years. Drivers…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with another weekly jobless claims reading. Weekly claims rose by…
ThinkstockWere prior reports on durable goods kept lower due to weather? It seems so. The March durable goods report from…
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