Manufacturing in the New York region expanded in June at the slowest pace in seven months as orders and sales cooled. The Federal Reserve Bank…
Telegraph.co.ukComparing monthly US job gains in the ADP and government reports, at a glanceWashington PostA survey of private companies by payroll provider ADP on Wednesday signaled a slowdown in hiring two days before the government issues the April …
The US private sector added the fewest amount of jobs since September 2011, raising worries over Friday’s closely watched non-farm payrolls report. Data from ADP,…
Want to see a completely wrong headline? Here’s mine from seven months ago:
The “deal” that I was referring to in this piece was changed dramatically from the one that is being worked on with creditors today.The haircut on bonds has changed, a…
Veteran Sen. John McCain has had enough with “tea-party” aligned lawmakers who have vowed not to vote to raise the debt ceiling before passage of a constitutional balanced budget amendment.
The Arizona Republican, the GOP’s 2008 presidential nomin…
Every day more than 700,000 people in Harris County are uncertain about where they will get their next meal. Not all of them are poor — many are working people who don’t qualify for federal food programs.
These are among the findings of a recen…
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Regulating (or outlawing) derivatives is absolutely essential to avoid a repeat of what we just went through – or worse. 60 million is pocket change. This is clearly using the budget crunch as an excuse to remove even the paper-thin regulation …
Squeeze is on for the state and local government borrowers. With options dwindling austerity destined to become only recourse. To the extent these governments avoid tax hikes, the budgetary axe will have to fall. Union agreements will be destroyed, pen…
The Biggest Disconnect of All Time
by Mike Larson Fri. October 1, 2010
http://www.moneyandm…-40273?FIELD9=1
I’m seeing one of the biggest disconnects of all time — between the underlying U.S. economy and the performance of the stock market. J…