Tag: economy
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December 15, 2009 09:24 PM EST --
President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. (AP)
Big investment adviser John Mauldin, the "Sage of Dallas," says the U.S. economy . . .
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December 21, 2009 08:00 PM EST --
Demonstrators hold a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama during a demonstration outside the Bella Center, the venue of the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, early Saturday, Dec. 19, . . .
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December 03, 2008 09:16 AM EST --
Paul Krugman on Oct. 13, 2008, after winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics. (AP)
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Paul Krugman got the Nobel Prize for economics in October, and it's been . . .
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November 15, 2009 07:00 PM EST --
(Photo: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid via Flickr)
Americans are turning back to old-fashioned tinkering and hands-on innovation. We’ll ask what a new burst of grassroots engineering might . . .
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November 30, 2009 09:24 PM EST --
How one hedge fund manager bet huge against American housing and made billions. We'll get the inside story.
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Gregory Zuckerman covers hedge funds and investing for The Wall Street . . .
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December 17, 2009 02:40 AM EST --
President Barack Obama makes a statement on health care reform after meeting with Senators, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, at the White House in Washington. From left are, Senate Banking Committee Chairman . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talks at a press conference at the G-20 Finance Ministers meeting near Horsham, England, on March 14, 2009. Finance officials from the world's richest . . .
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September 22, 2009 09:48 PM EDT --
Jose Rivera, 54, a resident of a homeless encampment in Fresno, Calif., was photographed on Thursday, June 18, 2009. (AP)
We’ll talk with writer Barbara Ehrenreich about how the working poor . . .
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October 19, 2009 09:48 PM EDT --
A home with a sale pending is shown in Tallahassee, Fla, Sept. 23, 2009. The National Association of Realtors said on Oct. 1 that the volume of signed contracts to buy previously occupied homes rose . . .
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October 13, 2008 11:13 PM EDT --
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If you dig far enough down in the world economy today — and you won't have to dig long — you come to the giant factories of China.
They are massive. . . .
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November 26, 2008 12:54 PM EST --
Patrons of The Villages Gridiron Classic, in The Villages, Fla., in January 2005. The game is held inside a retirement community, drawing large numbers of attendees who travel to the game by golf cart. . . .
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December 03, 2008 05:00 PM EST --
A member of a construction crew works under an Interstate 95 bridge in Philadelphia, July 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
American infrastructure may get a huge Obama shot in the arm. Maybe a . . .
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December 05, 2008 06:12 PM EST --
Students walk in the campus at Wells College in Aurora, N.Y. in Sept. 2007. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)
American colleges in trouble. Students and families strapped by recession, endowments crushed. . . .
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December 24, 2008 12:48 PM EST --
Police stand guard as workers gather in a standoff over a wage dispute at the gate of Jianrong Suitcase Factory in Dongguan, China, on Dec. 19, 2008. Thousands of companies in southern China have gone . . .
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January 21, 2009 12:53 PM EST --
Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner looks on, at left, as President-elect Barack Obama meets with members of his economic team at his transition office in Washington on Jan. 5, 2009. (AP) . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
Bernard Madoff arrives at federal court in New York on Thursday, March 12, 2009.(AP)
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Sometimes the news has a sense of humor.
This week, impatience with . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
American International Group office building in New York, Sept. 2008. (AP)
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There’s full-on rage in Washington now over the AIG bonuses. In the press, . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
Infosys Technologies Ltd. co-chairman Nandan Nilekani, looks on at the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) India Leadership Forum 2009 in Mumbai, India, Wednesday. . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:55 AM EDT --
AIG Chairmen Edward Liddy looks over the top of his glasses prior to testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 18, 2009, before the House Capital Markets, Insurance and Government . . .
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April 13, 2009 08:55 AM EDT --
Prospective students follow a group tour through Elon University, on Oct. 13, 2008, in Elon, N.C. The high school class of 2009 will send the most ever graduates on to college next fall. But the souring . . .
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