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Economy
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…
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…
The Standard and Poor’s Index rose 8.14 points Friday, continuing its longest winning streak since 2004 and capping a week of generally good news for the U.S. economy. The S&P…
Suppose you are a teenager. Suppose you are a rich teenager and one who is also spoiled and ill-behaved. Suppose you bend the rules continually, stretch the truth and put…
Earnings reports from the two of the nation’s largest banking institutions indicate they made plenty of money last year, though JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s paycheck won’t reflect that. Chase…
Workers starving for good news got a few morsels this week with positive reports on unemployment and pay. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says December’s unemployment rate was 7.8 percent,…