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G30, Ripe for Conspiracy Theorists
If you want to encourage the kind of conspiracy theories that have prospered in the wake of last year’s financial crisis — those that describe a secret cabal of elites running the world ̵...more
2009-12-04
Job Market Gets Friendlier to Recent Graduates
The job market is looking a little friendlier to recent college graduates than it has in past months.The National Association of Colleges and Employers’ college hiring index rose to 87.2 in Novembe...more
2009-12-04
Fed Officials Indicate Central Bank Unlikely to Alter Policy Soon
Two Federal Reserve officials indicated that the central bank isn’t likely to take its foot off the gas pedal soon.Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Charles Plosser said Friday h...more
2009-12-04
Black Youths Miss Out on Good Jobs News
One spot in the Labor Department’s employment report today remains especially grim: black youths.The overall unemployment rate fell in November but good news remains far off for young blacks, a par...more
2009-12-04
Temp Employment: Lousy Jobs, Good Signal
Of all of the numbers in Friday’s jobs report, one of the most encouraging was the increase in temporary employment, not for what it means today, but for what it could portend. Temp employment incr...more
2009-12-04
Economists React: ‘Game-Changer’ Report on Jobs
Economists and others weigh in on the smaller decline in U.S. payrolls and drop in the unemployment rate.This is one of those game-changer reports that should fundamentally alter the perception reg...more
2009-12-04
November Jobs Report, by the Numbers
The November employment report showed a payroll decline of just 11,000 jobs (the best since December 2007, the last positive figure) and the unemployment rate dropping to 10% (except for October, h...more
2009-12-04
Broader Jobless Rate Declines to 17.2%
The U.S. jobless rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 10% in November, the first decline in three months, but the government’s broader measure of unemployment tumbled even more, falling 0.3 point ...more
2009-12-04
Two Ex-CBO Economists Say Past Medicare Cost-Saving Bills Have Worked
Two former Congressional Budget Office economists now at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal advocacy group, say past congressional efforts to restrain Medicare spending actually ...more
2009-12-04
Fed’s Rosengren: Why We Did What We Did
Eric Rosengren, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, spoke this week at a gathering of Massachusetts newspaper publishers. “From all I have been hearing, it is not an easy time to b...more
2009-12-04

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