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As a consequence of the steps taken by his Administration, US President Barack Obama said that the US economy is now growing and more jobs are now being [...]

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He said the US economy is in a liquidity trap and more accommodation is not a “close call.” Boston's Eric Rosengren said “insuring against the risk of [...]

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Nancy Pelosi says that food stamps and unemployment insurance will grow the US economy and lift it from the recession that Barack Obama has helped to worsen [...]

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Warning that surging annual deficits presented a "real and growing threat" to the US economy, Bernanke told an audience in Rhode Island that a day of [...]

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up hiring and that may have reprecussions on the broader economy through reduced consumer spending, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of the US GDP. [...]

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Index measuring transportation of goods over the road signals decelerating GDP, little hope for job growth. An index that measures the flow of goods in [...]

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China is not the first nation whose economy has hung over US politics. In the 1980s, Japan's financial might and auto industry looked invincible. [...]

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But job growth in Canada will likely remain sluggish as long as the US economy is mired in a slow, grinding recovery where record-low interest rates have [...]

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Railroads are the US economy's circulatory system, moving imported consumer goods from coastal ports to inland market and goods for export from factories to [...]

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According to some Wall Street economists, the world economy will no longer catch a cold when the US economy sneezes. The view of these economists has [...]

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said yesterday that the world's most powerful central bank is prepared to take further steps to bolster the faltering US economy by buying Treasury [...]

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The US economy lost tens of thousands of jobs in September, and the unemployment rate stayed at a high level. There are nearly 15 million Americans out of [...]

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The Chinese own our debt, lend us money and send their excess population here. Posted by Ken Masterson on Oct 4 2010. Filed under Featured, US Economy. [...]

3 Oct 2010 NPR news on the US and world economy, the World Bank, and Federal Reserve. Commentary on economic trends. Subscribe to NPR Economy podcasts [...]

15 Oct 2010 Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, has delivered a bleak prognosis for the US economy, suggesting that he supports a new monetary [...]

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Bank runs were common throughout the 1800's and into the Great Depression. The Roosevelt Era reform that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ended bank runs. Although banks failed during our current recession, they did not create much news because the FDIC functions so well. Thi [...]

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The Air Transport Association composed of these Yankee bankrupts is faulting the US government for offering generous financing terms to foreign buyers of Boeing jetliners but not domestic ones. Think of it as "Buy American" for the [...]

Failing to address the challenges of an aging population will endanger the country's economic future, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a gathering of business and union leaders in Rhode Island on Monday night. [...]

No matter how much debt you might have, there always exists a projected income growth rate at which you can pretend to be solvent. The projected rate of growth is the issue on which I differ most with those who claim that Ireland is fundamentally solvent. They are moderately optimistic about future [...]

Recently in an intervirew, when asked about lack of jobs in U.S., a prominent journalist Tom Brokaw stated that our young people need to think out of the box and look for jobs in management in China, India and Middle East. When asked, what average students should do , he stated that they need to loo [...]

The anticipated quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve’ continued to push equity prices higher last week. The S&P500 rose another 0.95% to almost fully discount (or price in) the Fed’s next round of electronic money printing. The VIX (or fear) index slumped to six month lows, as a new wave of [...]

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In case you missed it--and I have been posting a lot on currencies these days--the Aussie and Loonie have recently hit parity or better with the US dollar though both have slipped back the last few hours. Don't expect this temporary [...]

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(Source: Bloomberg) The US economy may fail to grow or even shrink in the fourth quarter as auto production subsides following a surge in the previous three [...]