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Source: ThinkstockSeventy-four percent of Americans believe that the nation is still in a recession, which may be a sign that the lower and middle classes are still anxious about unemployment, the...
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Source: ThinkstockSpain’s statistics bureau, the INE, reported that unemployment was 26.02% for the fourth quarter of 2013. The figure is a terrible reminder that some nations within the European...
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Source: ThinkstockThe global economy will expand at 3.7% this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast in its latest World Economic Outlook, released Tuesday. That is up from a 3.6%...
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Source: ThinkstockHeading into the Super Bowl, here is a rundown of the NFL’s 10 most expensive games of the year.Super Bowl XLVIII is obviously slated to be the single most expensive football game...
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Source: ThinkstockShares in China had a rough start to the week as the Shanghai Composite Index fell below 2,000 Monday for the first time in almost six months. New data showed that factory output...
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Source: ThinkstockIf the global economic recovery has left some things behind, the most important is probably job creation. In 2013, 202 million people were unemployed worldwide, up five million from...
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Naturally, it has occurred to people who do not have the money to retire that they shouldn't. Many baby boomers want to continue to work for years to come, even if they do not have pressing financial...
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Forecasts have predicted that China's GDP will pass that of the United States sometime between 2030 and 2050. For the time being, those forecasts appear too optimistic. China's GDP growth appears to...
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Wealthy elites have co-opted political power to rig the rules of the economic game, warned Oxfam in a new report published ahead of this week's World Economic Forum in Davos.
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Source: ThinkstockThe vast majority of working Americans spend their time at one job, but that isn’t the case for everyone. In 2012, roughly 5% of the U.S. working population held more than one job...
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The so-called Philly Fed index is out, showing an improvement for January and above expectations. The index has now been positive for eight consecutive months.
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Source: Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department has two key readings out this Thursday — the Consumer Price Index and Weekly Jobless Claims.Headline inflation, the CPI, is mostly...
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Source: ThinkstockIf the general U.S. economy has improved over the past year, most Americans have not seen its benefits, at least based on their personal experiences, according to new data from...
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Source: ThinkstockWholesale inflation was on the rise in December. The Labor Department released its Producer Price Index (PPI), showing a rise of 0.4% from the prior month and a rise of 1.2% from...
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While the developed economies of the world will stage improvements this year, and the growth of the developing world will accelerate sharply, the United States is the key to a strong global recovery...
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