21 hours ago by joe

Participants in the 2012 National Association of Home Builders International Builders Show had a rare opportunity today to hear from Ben Bernanke, Chairman of The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Bernanke spoke to a full house and tickets to the event were one of the hottest items a ...

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2 days ago by Panderbear

Presidents and governors are like quarterbacks. When things go well, they get too much credit. When things go badly, they get too much blame. The economy dwarfs government. The most that a president or governor can really do is attempt to minimize the pain during bad times.Technically, the recession ...

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3 days ago by hidden

A few months ago economists were all but certain the US economy would slow sharply at the start of this year, with many warning that recession risks were growing.

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4 days ago by Brian Domitrovic

[1]Image via Wikipedia As of January 2009, the nation had been in recession for thirteen months. The economy was in its fourth down quarter over the last five. Stocks were lower by 40%. And unemployment was up three full points, to 7.5%. By any historical comparison, the economy was sure not only to ...

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5 days ago by tamoeconomics

Friday February 3, 2012 – Period 2 Monday February 6, 2012 – Period 7 Today we took a quiz over national income accounting. After the quiz we learned about economic growth and econommic instability caused by unemployment. Our lesson covered the business fluctuations and cycles which interrupt econom ...

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15 days ago by jfrankel

This morning the Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first estimate for 2011 GDP. It showed national output for the first time surpassing the pre-recession peak, which occurred in the last quarter of 2007. (See chart below, at the bottom.) Given that the economy hit its trough in mid-2009, the ...

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17 days ago by Gene Callahan

[The following is an excerpt from Chapter 13 of Gene Callahan's book, Economics for Real People. Read it here or buy it at mises.org] In the economies of most modern industrial nations, a central bank manages the nation’s money supply and attempts to control the level of interest rates, at least to ...

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18 days ago by www.peterdag.com

It is a wild thought, but... It looks like the bond vigilantes have been going after the bonds of countries with deteriorating debt situation. Even Germany has not been immune. Could it be -- could it be -- that they are going to come to the USA? If so yields may be going up quite a bit. They alread ...

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19 days ago by John T. Harvey

Tuesday will mark the third State of the Union address by President Barack Obama. Early indications are that he will focus on the economy and talk in particular about turning the nation back towards the middle class and middle-class values. The underlying logic is that part of the reason for our lag ...

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19 days ago by ZeroHedge.com

As of a few hours ago, Goldman’s Francesco Garzarelli has officially told the firm’s clients to go ahead and short 10 Year Treasurys via March 2012 futures, with a 126-00 target. While Garzarelli is hardly Stolper (and we will have more on the latest Stolpering out in a second), the fact that Goldma ...

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