14 hours ago by Ryan

Economist Christopher Thornberg has long been considered a pessimist when it comes to the housing industry. He was, after all, one of the few voices during the nation’s housing boom who insisted that a housing bubble was not only real but about to burst. It’s news, then, when a critic such as Thornb ...

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1 day ago by Rahim Kaba

When the economic crisis hit, organizations scurried to find ways to cut back and keep their businesses afloat. Survival was key. Investments and projects of all kinds were put on hold, including upgrading and replacing enterprise software systems. A forecast alert by Gartner showed that enterprise ...

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2 days ago by EOI

The economic recovery has been different for women than for men, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Women experienced a later start to job loss during the recession and have recovered at a slower pace. National jobs numbers released in January saw women catching up slightly in t ...

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2 days ago by Worley Dervish

While the media and political hacks argued earlier this week about whether or not Chrysler’s two-minute halftime Super Bowl ad starring Clint Eastwood was meant to be a veiled endorsement of President Obama, I was struck by an altogether different question: Is this really who we want to have telling ...

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3 days ago by @Risk

Any recovery currently underway in the US auto industry could be completely undermined by China’s illegal trading practices, according to the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), a non-profit, non-partisan partnership of leading manufacturers and the United Steelworkers. In a press release iss ...

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3 days ago by MaryRW

While the media and political hacks argued earlier this week about whether or not Chrysler's two-minute halftime Super Bowl ad starring Clint Eastwood was meant to be a veiled endorsement of President Obama, I was struck by an altogether different question: Is this really who we want to have telling ...

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4 days ago by raemd95

It was somewhere between hilarious and pathetic to watch Republicans respond to the positive jobs report last Friday. Some friends and I were counting the minutes until some Republican started casting aspersions on the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which compiles and releases the data. Sure enou ...

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4 days ago by jodonnell

The employment news last Friday was very good. Really. Very good. Arguably, employment is, by far, the most important economic trend in America today. But like most important issues, it generates a lot of controversy and debate. The debate over whether the new 8.3% unemployment rate is accurate is m ...

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5 days ago by raemd95

Last Friday the GOP had a really bad day. It didn’t come in the form of new polling results — or some new political scandal. It was delivered to them by the economic statistics: Private sector jobs up 243,000 — almost 100,000 more than expected. Unemployment rate down to 8.3 percent. Twenty-three st ...

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5 days ago by Morris Segall

This past Friday saw the release of important data on the U.S. economy in the months of December, 2011 and January, 2012. Included were factory orders and shipments for December and the ISM Non-Manufacturing survey and employment report for January. All three reports showed surprisingly strong numbe ...

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