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An IPO I-told-you-so moment? – Washington Post (blog)
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An IPO I-told-you-so moment?Washington Post (blog)By Emi Kolawole The Facebook Inc. log. (David Paul Morris – BLOOMBERG) In case you missed it Monday, Post columnist Vivek Wadhwa let loose on the perception that the IPO is an “elixir” for job creat…
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Putting Our Slow Jobs Recovery Into Perspective – Businessweek
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Disappointing, but not shocking. The government’s report Friday that the economy created fewer jobs than expected in April—115,000—showed an unwelcome deceleration of America’s job-creating machine. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News had a median forecast of 160,000 jobs created. In the big picture, though, the nearly 3-year-old expansion is proceeding at the same pace as the…
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US Treasury Issues Cautiously Bullish Outlook For TBAC
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WASHINGTON – The recovery continued to firm in the The recovery continued to firm in the final quarter of last year, and labor market conditions improved. According to the advance GDP report released last week, the economy grew by 2.8 percent at an annual rate in the fourth quarter, the tenth straight quarter of growth…
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You Can’t Fool Mother Nature For Long: Financial Markets
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Constant State and Central Bank intervention and manipulation is not the foundation of a free, transparent market–it is perception management in service of Elite control and looting.
You can fool Mother Nature for awhile, but not over the long-te…
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Roubini: Don’t Believe The Good News
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NEW YORK – Macroeconomic indicators for the United States have been better than expected for the last few months. Job creation has picked up. Indicators for manufacturing and services have improved moderately. Even the housing industry has shown s…
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Newt is ripping Romney a new one…
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Newt is a psycho and a liar – but no one ever said he wasn’t the guru of negative campaigning. The real Newt is coming out, after that brief taste of real candidacy was hammered by Mitt’s SuperPAC ads.
Gingrich says Bain Capital Looted Companies:
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Home Prices Still Falling. And It’s Not Just Foreclosures
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Home prices are highly seasonal, due to the different mix of homes that sell at different times of the year, but the latest reading for September shows home prices are under added pressure now; this is not just due to the high concentration of distr…
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"Fair Share" versus "Class Warfare"
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President Obama’s senior staff laid out his proposal to control the federal deficit while creating jobs Sunday night. The plan claims to cut more than 4 trillion over the next decade, largely from a $1.5 trillion increase in taxes targeting the wea…
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The Unfixable Jobs Crisis
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Another month, another sign that the job market remains unchangingly, distressingly stuck. The official unemployment rate according to just-released figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is at 9.1%, but that fails to capture the weakness of t…