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From Inequality to Unemployment: Obama’s Track Record in 4 Charts
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3 Common Misconceptions About Long-Term Unemployment
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How the Fed Could F*ck Up the Economy by Helping Too Much
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5 Ways to Tell How Bad the Job Market Really Is
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January’s Unemployment Report Shows More Jobs But Still More Jobless
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) According to fresh numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, economic growth is holding steady. Through the month of January, the U.S. economy added 257,000 jobs,...
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Business Activity Is Up; Did the Fed Get It Right This Time?
Source: Thinkstock The results of the various regional business activity surveys for July are likely to make the Federal Reserve ecstatic. Business activity has picked up pace and is touching...
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So Close, Yet So Far Away: Has the Fed Achieved Its Economic Goals?
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Is It Time to Take the Economy Off Life Support?
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Low Inflation? No Problem: Employment Leads Demand
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Energy Prices Lead Inflation: This Isn’t What the Fed Had in Mind
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From Inequality to Unemployment: Obama’s Track Record in 4 Charts
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images It’s been more than six years since president Barack Obama was sworn into office. As most people remember with the financial crisis at its height, two wars half a world...
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How the Fed Could F*ck Up the Economy by Helping Too Much
Source: Thinkstock Doves — those who, to some degree, prioritize unemployment concerns over inflation concerns — have ruled the roost at the U.S. Federal Reserve for the past several years. This is...
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5 Ways to Tell How Bad the Job Market Really Is
Source: Thinkstock If you ask around, you’d find out that Americans generally think the economy is crap. For the week ended October 12, Gallup’s U.S. Economic Confidence Index rose to an uninspiring...
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Common Misconceptions About Long-Term Unemployment
Source: Thinkstock Defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as labor force participants who have been out of work for twenty-seven weeks (six months) or more, long-term unemployment is both a symptom...
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Business Activity Is Up; Did the Fed Get It Right This Time?
Source: Thinkstock The results of the various regional business activity surveys for July are likely to make the Federal Reserve ecstatic. Business activity has picked up pace and is touching...
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So Close, Yet So Far Away: Has the Fed Achieved Its Economic Goals?
Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, has a message that should be a wakeup call for all the yield-hunting investors who have been parking their...
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Is It Time to Take the Economy Off Life Support?
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Low Inflation? No Problem: Employment Leads Demand
Source: Thinkstock The Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) for June, one of the broadest measures of economic activity, has a surprise for all those who thought the economy was going to grow...
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Energy Prices Lead Inflation: This Isn’t What the Fed Had in Mind
Hugh Pinney/Getty Images Consumer price data for the month of June is out, and as expected, it looks like modest inflationary pressure is taking root. However, while it seems like this is good news...
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From Inequality to Unemployment: Obama’s Track Record in 4 Charts
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