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• in Business
  General Motors Stockholders Vote To Change CEO Nov. 6, 2012
  General Motors reported a drop in profit of 12% and in most business environments this would be cause for great concern
  by theedje / on Oct 31, 2012
• in Politics
  Hugh Hewitt's 100 Reasons To Vote For a 45th Presidency
  Hugh proceeded point by point, with full explanation, 100 specific reasons Mitt Romney would make a better president for 2012
  by theedje / on Oct 24, 2012
• in Politics
  The Sluggish US Job Growth; Who Is To Blame?
  The truth about the sluggish growth of the US economy
  by omwenga / on Oct 7, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “us economy”

 

• EU, US leaders launch trade talks, France digs in on culture

  
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  The United States and the European Union launched talks on Monday to create one of the world’s most ambitious free-trade zones, as France again underscored its determination to protect its movies and culture. A trans-Atlantic free trade agreement was first considered three decades ago but was knocked down by France ...
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• Is PIMCOs Bill Gross Wrong Again?

  
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  Stuart Varney put the question directly to me last week during his Fox Business show: What do I make of comments from PIMCOs Bill Gross...that hes projecting a 60% chance of a global recession in the next three to five years? Now, Bill Gross is obviously one of the most powerful men in the world. ...
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• Total US Construction Spending

  
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    Total Construction Spending growth has stalled in the US economy. It accounts for nearly half of GPDI, and is a significant part of the reason why GDP Growth has been sluggish. This category along with Consumer Spending is the spark we need to spur the economy out of its doldrums. Obviously, the major reason
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• Wall Street is winning the long war against post-crash regulation | Heidi Moore

  
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  Feeble as it was, Dodd-Frank was a high point of reining in abuses. Thanks to financial lobbying, its business as usual Less than ten years ago, if a Wall Street trader wanted to find a sucker to buy bad mortgages, he knew where to find him: often, sitting in an office in a German landesbank in a small city, looking ...
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• Ralph Nader Scolds ‘Con Man’ Obama [Video]

  
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  Ralph Nader apparently believes that President Obama is a con man. Nader made his feelings clear in the context of the lack of action on raising the federal minimum wage. He contends that Obama and the Democrats generally have only given lip service to boosting the national hourly wage rate. Nader’s remarks came ...
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• IMF warns US economic recovery has been slowed by ill-designed cuts

  
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  Fund credits booming energy market with boosting US but warns Congress against spending less on infrastructure and education The International Monetary Fund said on Friday that an "excessively rapid and ill-designed" deficit reduction plan had hampered the "tepid" recovery in the US economy. In its annual report on ...
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• U.S. Metropolitan Areas Ranked By Rent Prices

  
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  Contrary to what you may have expected, New York is not in the top spot, though it is in the top 10. The chart above was compiled by Bloomberg based on data from the Census Bureau and the American Community Survey. The Riverside-San Bernadino area saw the highest increase in prices in percentage terms since 2009, ...
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• 8 Reasons Your Dollar Doesnt Go As Far As it Did a 10 Years Ago

  
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  Patients hospital expenses have nearly doubled in the past decade. So, too, has the price of college textbooks. And gas prices have more than doubled, while prices of fuel oil and other fuels for home use have climbed a whopping 145%. Its been a tough decade on the wallet, thanks to inflation . The figures ...
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• June Preliminary Consumer Sentiment Reading Shows Slight Decline

  
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  Reuters reports that the June preliminary reading of the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index was 82.7 . This is a slight decline from May’s final index reading of 84.5, but still one of the highest readings of the last 6 years. Note that the overall consumer sentiment metric is not necessarily ...
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• Industrial Production Shows No Increase In May

  
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  The U.S. Federal Reserve reports that industrial production was unchanged in May after having decreased 0.4% in April. The index level is now at 98.7% of its 2007 average , and is up 1.6% from a year ago. The capacity utilization rate for total industry decreased to 77.6% in May, a rate 0.2% ...
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• U.S. Producer Price Index Rises 0.6% In May

  
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  The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the producer price index for all finished good increased a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in May. This follows a 0.7% decrease in April. The core PPI, which excludes food and energy, increased 0.1% in May, the same as April. The unadjusted price change in goods from 12 ...
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• Volatility Is Hitting Wall Street

  
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  Wall Street Is Entering A Period Of Volatility For awhile, there was some smooth sailing and some serious highs for investors to enjoy on Wall Street.  For those brave enough to get in early, the going was good and the returns, even better.  Lately, however,
  5 days ago

• World Bank Cuts Global Growth Outlook

  
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  World Bank Cuts its Global Growth Outlook In spite of its optimism for an improving global economy, the World Bank has lowered its expectations for global growth in the upcoming year.  Due to the recession in Europe that has been deeper and longer lived than
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• Keith Fitz-Gerald: Anybody Listening to Bill Gross Is "Probably Headed to the Poorhouse"

  
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  Bill Gross Pimco, which manages the worlds largest bond fund, predicted earlier this week theres a more than 60% chance of a recession in three to five years. "Given that the last global recession was four years ago, and also given that the global economy is significantly more indebted today than it was four ...
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• Thursday’s Mid-Day Movers: 3 Stories Driving Markets

  
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  The major stocks were rebounding Thursday amid optimistic consumer spending and labor market reports. As of 12 p.m.: DIJA: +0.40% to 15055.17 S&P 500: +0.47% to 1620.05 NASDAQ: +0.44% to 3415.32 Gold: -0.5% to 75.01 Oil: +0.09% to 22.29 U.S. 10-Year: -2.11% to 21.83 Here are three ...
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• The New New World

  
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  As the debt crisis lingers in Europe, many countries cease to be magnets for mobile hands and brains. Confronting high unemployment rates at home, Europeans are shedding a fear of relocation, and new talent is heading toward developing countries with fast-growing economies like Mexico and Brazil. According to the ...
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• State And Local Government Contraction Suppress U.S. Economic Recovery

  
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  A new report released by the Tax Policy Center examines the role that state and local governments have played in the U.S. economic recovery. Examining state and local finances in recent economic recoveries, we find that state and local government activity exhibited an unprecedented decline during the most recent ...
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• Do Top U.S. Executives Believe A ‘Recovery’ is Taking Place?

  
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  There is no doubt that the U.S. economy is still struggling to make a convincing recovery from the credit meltdown. Asset prices have been pushed higher by the Federal Reserve, and the labor market is failing to keep pace with population growth. However, the latest report on sentiment from chief executive officers ...
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• Lululemon Athletica: Three Components for a Meltdown

  
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  Shares of Lululemon Athletica (Nasdaq: LULU) are off sharply this week after the company’s CEO announced she would be leaving the firm. Over the past few sessions, the stock has dropped from Monday’s closing price of $82.28 to a current reading of $64. By the time you read this, the stock could be even lower. ...
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• Morning Market Update June 13

  
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  Gold continues to trade in a sticky narrow range, as neither good new nor bad news seems able to have more than a transitory influence. Silver caught a bit of an updraft overnight from copper prices, but is also trading in a tight range. Another day of sharp losses in Tokyo markets drove global stocks into the red ...
  5 days ago

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