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Is the recession really over? That is the question a lot of people are asking today as newspapers, news websites, and television news shows lead with a headline that seems to declare that the economy is back to normal. Of course, this is not at all what is going on. This presents another opportunity to [...]
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On the heals of recent negative job numbers reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, comes news that bankruptcy filings increased by 14 percent during the first half of 2010. Does this bode well for the economy or is this one of the signals of a recession coming back to haunt us? Unfortunately, as is [...]
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Recent new that payrolls fell in June here in the U.S. is bad news for the economy, but maybe not as bad as it is being made out by the headlines. Let’s start with what the numbers are and move on to what they mean. As with all economic statistics, employment numbers are compiled from [...]
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Everyone is worried about if and when the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, even though the Fed itself continues to say that it is not considering doing so. That is what happens when interest rates are so low (basically just above zero) that everyone knows the only way they can go is up.
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To hear many of the newspapers and other media outlets tell it, Google’s blowout third quarter is the official signal that the recession is over and that businesses are spending again, because customers are spending again, and everything is fine again. The logic goes something like this. Google is not only the largest search engine, [...]
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