Tag: economy
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January 10, 2008 10:37 AM EST --
OK, here's the blue economy scenario for 2008. Housing prices keep falling. Credit stays tight. Consumers choke. In retailing, restaurants, travel and more, jobs vanish. In real estate, construction . . .
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January 07, 2008 11:16 AM EST --
On the road to New Hampshire and Election '08, a sharp economic populism is in the air in a way it hasn't been since long before Ronald Reagan. The idea that the rich are getting richer unfairly . . .
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May 22, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
Suddenly, even for people who don't follow oil futures and Saudi production estimates, the lid seems to have blown off energy prices.
For the first time, oil prices barreled past the $135 dollar . . .
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May 19, 2008 10:40 AM EDT --
The rich aside, it's not an easy time out there, economically, for Americans today.
Recession, insecurity, and inflation hit everyone but thirty-something journalist Nan Mooney sees a generational . . .
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February 28, 2008 10:27 AM EST --
The economy has been dominating the headlines all week. Prices are soaring. Consumer confidence is plummeting. The housing market is imploding.
Yesterday, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke . . .
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April 26, 2007 08:35 AM EDT --
A new study says the nation's finances are in much worse shape than Washington is letting on, and big new taxes are headed our way. On Point spoke about this study with Kent Smetters, one . . .
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January 09, 2008 11:48 AM EST --
China's economy is red-hot. In 20 years, maybe 15, it could be bigger than America's. And its stock market is over the moon.
Investment guru and China bull Jim Rogers says Americans should . . .
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February 12, 2008 10:21 AM EST --
Over time, real food prices go up and they go down. But right now, we're at the end of a long period of cheap food. Globally, prices are soaring. And experts disagree over when --if . . .
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September 27, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
The big G.M. wobble this week over workers and wages and whether its factories will be built in this country was just one more wake-up call. The old world is gone and the new one is going to require a . . .
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June 13, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
Congress took up a big energy bill yesterday. You’ll be hearing a lot more about it. But it’s not likely any time soon to ease the pain of thirty, forty, fifty, even sixty dollars for . . .
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November 15, 2007 11:41 AM EST --
Recent months have brought a triple threat to the economy: housing market slump, a credit crunch, and oil prices pushing 100 dollars a barrel.
There's no shortage of bearish voices on . . .
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July 21, 2008 09:39 AM EDT --
Budweiser Beer – the Great American Lager – is Belgian now.
In Europe, Asia and the Middle East, foreign companies are going global. And with the dollar so weak, US companies look . . .
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July 14, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
With frightening stakes for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve are stepping in with a plan to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the backers of nearly half of American mortgage debt. . . .
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July 11, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
For much of the 20th century, tough lines were drawn around the world between capitalist and Communist countries and economies. Now, Communism is all but gone, and some economists are saying it's time . . .
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October 02, 2007 02:46 PM EDT --
Well, nobody's talking about the almighty dollar anymore. It took 1.42 dollars to buy one Euro yesterday, the US dollar’s weakest point since the European currency was born. Driven by American . . .
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June 18, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
In the great explosion of globalization that hit the world in the 1990s, former World Bank chief economist Lawrence Summers was boldly front and center, cheering on global markets as, ultimately, Bill . . .
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June 25, 2007 11:34 AM EDT --
Private equity is a fancy name for a simple operation. Big dealmakers round up billions, buy companies, strip them down, add debt and resell. Done right, it can add efficiency to the US economy. Done right . . .
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January 23, 2008 10:37 AM EST --
Panic has swept world stock markets this week. On Monday, nervous investors in Asia looked at the US economy and recession fears and launched a global sell-off. It was huge.
Yesterday, the . . .
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March 25, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
There's been a little relief in the stock markets at the beginning of this week, but what a wild ride it's been lately. Oodles of money have been lost in markets and real estate, and nobody . . .
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April 03, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
On the economic front these days, the buzz word is crisis: Wall Street, housing, credit crunch, falling dollar, recession.
The headlines are scary. And now they're full of proposed fixes, too.But . . .
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