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A report from Merrill Lynch shows that investors are now more worried about the “fiscal cliff” than the financial trouble of Europe:Europe is staging a comeback in investor portfolios while...
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According to the latest data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the US budget deficit for the fiscal year ending September 30th is now forecast at $1.1 trillion. That’s lower than the...
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Source: Jon OggThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is supposed to be nonpartisan, but the updated 2012 budget projection is just alarming, and its projections under the coming fiscal cliff need to...
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Some 90% of economists questioned for the monthly Bluechip survey believe there will be a ‘moderate’ or ‘small’ impact to US economic growth in the second half of this year resulting from the...
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The International Monetary Fund still sees growth remaining positive throughout 2012 and 2013. Unfortunately, this pesky “fiscal cliff” and the Euro area crisis are listed as the main risks to...
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US Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and House Republican Leader John Boehner have reached an agreement that would continue funding federal government spending for six more months following the...
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When Gallup asked people about the state of the economy this spring, as a recovery appeared to have taken hold, the polling company found “nearly half of Americans, 46%, still say the economy is in...
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During CNBC’s Delivering Alpha Conference this morning, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner talked about many things pertaining to taxes, politics, the fiscal cliff and more. Geithner is defending the...
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FOMC meetings and the press conferences which follow each quarter now can show some important insight into what the real underlying risks and issues are to the economic recovery. It is often hard...
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