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Economy
The snapshot of the U.S. economy in the first week of May looks unusually promising. Almost every arrow economists want pointing up – home sales, auto sales, stock market –…
American consumers are a step slow in accepting the news that the U.S. economy really is on the mend. Consumer confidence and retail spending dipped in March, while the rest…
The U.S. airline industry is coming off its second-best year ever in terms of customer service, but it comes with a price: Complaints were up, and so was the average…
A month after sequestration kicked in, the alarms sounded by President Obama – “It will cost us jobs and slow down our economy,” he said Feb. 5 – have not…
The hot topic in America is the issue of gay marriage, as the Supreme Court has been asked to rule on the Defense of Marriage Act and on California’s marriage…
Unemployment dropped in February to its lowest levels in four years, consumers spent money at the fastest rate in five months, and Wall Street set new records, all of which…
There are so many mixed signals coming from all sectors of the U.S. economy that you need a linguist to properly interpret the flow of information. Depending on where you…
The complete lack of effort by politicians in Washington to find a solution to sequestration is sure to have some effect on the U.S. economy, but it’s not being felt…
It has been more than five years since those steaming piles of toxic, subprime mortgages were scooped up, cut up and then “structured” into the bundles of seemingly sanitized investment…
In 1956, M. King Hubbert, a geoscientist working at the Shell research lab in Houston, presented a paper at a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute (API), predicting that oil…