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It may be that some people just want to spoil a good time. As earnings, GDP, employment, and housing sales…
American GDP growth was much better than expected in the second quarter of the year, falling only 1%. Unemployment statistics…
Chief Executive magazine has released its latest CEO Index. We follow this more closely now in order to try to…
It has begun to dawn on economists that all of the good news about housing, GDP, and earnings much be…
The Commerce Department has just released its data on Personal Income and Spending for the month of June. Income came…
The Institute for Supply Management has shown that the manufacturing activity came in with a reduced rate of contraction for…
We already knew GDP was coming out and that it was going to be bad. At least it was not…
The Fed has stated that it is not worried that low interest rates and an economic recovery will cause inflation.…
No one wants to say the recession is over. It would be bad luck. The minute a prominent economist or…
The Conference Board’s reading on consumer confidence 46.6 for July, down from an unrevised figure of 49.3 in June. Bloomberg…
Analysts have hoped that the rate at which Americans become unemployed will slow in the second half of 2009. There has…
The idea of Fed chairman Bernanke at a town hall meeting being covered by PBS made some Washington observers shudder.…
For reasons that will probably always remain a mystery to the broader public, Fed chair Bernanke went to Kansas City…
The federal minimum wage gets a boost to $7.25 an hour today, a move that may hurt the low-wage earners…
The media made a big deal of the fact that the DJIA rose above 9,000 for the first time in…
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