The US economy added 42,000 private-sector jobs last month
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At day 36, government shutdown is longest in US history
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Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson was a lonely voice on Wall Street calling a “rolling recession” when others saw a boom. Now he sees a “rolling recovery.”
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How the U.S. economy is defying gravity—and how insights into human behavior help us understand why
U.S. economists may be barely holding on by their fingernails over the current state of the American economy, but strangely, consumers don’t seem to care. Here’s why.
Investors will seek clues about the health of the U.S. economy in the coming week following worrisome labor market reports and technology-led turbulence that has knocked the stock market off record highs.
This isn’t your parents’ economy. Over the last 35 years, the American workplace — and workforce — have undergone an amazing shift. In 1990 (not that long ago – ask anyone over 50), manufacturing was the largest employment sector in 35 states.
Wednesday on surprisingly strong job growth and service sector data, which suggests the economy is in decent shape and calls into question how much lower the Federal Reserve needs to cut interest rates.
On this week’s Everybody’s Business, the author explains three economic indicators she says might tell us where things are heading.
Countries around the world have been discussing the need to rein in climate change for three decades, yet global greenhouse gas emissions—and global temperatures with them—keep rising.
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