Economy/Business

Why We Have -- and Probably Will Keep Having -- Sluggish Job Growth

Started by SirLinksALot

Investor lessons from a market bubble that cost Isaac Newton a bundle

Started by endicom

Defined-benefit (DB) pensions

Started by ChrisChristie4Pres

Jobs: The Report, the Spin, and the Fear

Started by mystery-ak

The Economist Who Predicted Obamacare’s Hit to Jobs

Started by Rapunzel

Economy adds only 142K jobs in September...[jobless rate 5.1%]

Started by mystery-ak

Surprise: U.S. Economic Data Have Been the World's Most Disappointing

Started by rangerrebew

The Economy’s Worst 8-Year Run in 62 Years

Started by rangerrebew

Not News at AP: 10 Straight Months of Year-Over-Year Declines in Factory Orders and Shipments

Started by rangerrebew

Wireless Wars: Verizon Slashes Prices After Pressure From Rivals

Started by Rapunzel

Minnesota Restaurant Adds ‘Minimum Wage Fee,’ Angers Idiots

Started by rangerrebew

Wealthy more worried about being seen as wealthy

Started by mystery-ak

Inflation Shot Up in April to Fastest Pace Seen in More Than Three Years

Started by rangerrebew

The ROI of Being African American

Started by rangerrebew

‘UAW. We Don’t Need It’: Failed Vote at Tenn. Auto Plant Underscores Many Workers’ Distrust of Unions

Started by Rapunzel

Why the Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Voted Against the UAW

Started by Rapunzel

Americans Must Work Jan. 1 Through April 24 Just to Pay Taxes

Started by mystery-ak

$20 trillion man: National debt nearly doubles during Obama presidency

Started by rangerrebew

"Soros Put" Hits Record As Billionaire's Downside Hedge Rises By 154% in Q4 To $1.3 Billion

Started by happyg

FHFA Head Warns Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac May Need a Capital Injection from the U.S. Treasury

Started by rangerrebew

Treasury Data: U.S. Would Have Surplus If Spending Returned to 2008 Level

Started by rangerrebew

China Just Overtook The US As The World's Largest Economy

Started by mystery-ak

GM recalls another 269,000 cars for variety of defects

Started by rangerrebew

Obama's Stimulus: Five Years of Keynesian Fairy Dust

Started by Lando Lincoln

Obama’s stimulus beginning to drag economy down

Started by mystery-ak

As Oil Prices Stay Low, Alaska Mulls Income Tax

Started by HAPPY2BME

Labor Force Participation Remains at 38-Year Low; 94,513,000 Not in Labor Force; Unemployment Ticks Down to 5.0%

Started by rangerrebew

What Happened to the Middle-Class American Family? (NBC blames the economy)

Started by jmyrlefuller

"US Debt Is 3 Times More Than You Think" Warns Former Chief US Accountant

Started by rangerrebew

Citigroup says Mexican fraud lowers bank's 2013 earnings

Started by Rapunzel

Record 92,120,000 not working in Obama’s economy for June 2014

Started by rangerrebew

$3,248,723,000,000: Federal Taxes Set Record in FY 2015; $21,833 Per Worker; Feds Still Run $438.9B Deficit

Started by rangerrebew

Seeking Lower Taxes, Companies Flee the U.S.

Started by rangerrebew

Is "Government Motors" becoming "China Motors?

Started by rangerrebew

How GM has responded to the stimulus it received

Started by rangerrebew

Too Few Jobs? Note to Trump -- Trade Is Not the Problem, Slow Growth Is

Started by SirLinksALot

Labor Costs to Skyrocket for American Cars

Started by Paladin

Overwhelming majority of studies show raising minimum wage costs jobs

Started by rangerrebew

U.S. Total Debt Soars By $674 Billion In November

Started by rangerrebew

Obama’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Accused of Racism

Started by flowers

Census Bureau: 21.6% of U.S. Children—15,931,000--on Food Stamps in 2014

Started by rangerrebew

Disability Beneficiaries Exceed 10.9 Million 2 Straight Years

Started by rangerrebew

OMB: Red tape costs Americans 9 billion hours, $189 billion

Started by rangerrebew

Gas Prices May Jump From California Emissions Law

Started by Rapunzel

New Distributism 2 — Mistakes To Avoid For Theologians Talking About Economics

Started by Oceander

U.S. Is Seeking Billions From Global Banks in Currency Manipulation Settlement

Started by rangerrebew

Why UPS Trucks Don't Turn Left

Started by mystery-ak

Houston Merger Creates ‘Largest’ Independent Energy Company in Mexican Gulf

Started by Rapunzel

Sales of Electric Vehicles Fall Far Short of Obama’s ‘1 Million By 2015’ Goal

Started by rangerrebew

Is $7.6 billion a bargain for 'Candy Crush' maker?

Started by Rapunzel

Business Debt Delinquencies Are Now Higher Than When Lehman Brothers Collapsed In 2008

Started by SirLinksALot

Business stunned by Obama overtime move

Started by rangerrebew

Improper Medicare-Medicaid Payments Up 20%; $77.4B in FY14

Started by rangerrebew

Study: Income Inequality Greater, Growing Faster in Blue States

Started by Gazoo

New Distributism 4 — Why The Church Needs A Prophetic Economic Voice

Started by Oceander

The Hidden Rot in the Jobs Numbers Hours worked are declining, resulting in the equivalent of a net loss of 100,000 jobs since September.

Started by Rapunzel

Haste Clouds Long-Term Effort on Mortgage Fraud

Started by Rapunzel

The Economist' Misses the Point on Crony Capitalism

Started by Rapunzel

A Crisis Worse Than ISIS? Bank Bail-Ins Begin

Started by rangerrebew

New Orleans loses one of its treasured ENTREPRENEURS .

Started by rangerrebew

Rising food prices bite into household budgets

Started by mystery-ak

Report: Deficit will grow $131 billion under Obamacare

Started by rangerrebew

US added 126K jobs in March, vs 245K expected; jobless rate stays at 5.5%

Started by mystery-ak

Smith & Wesson Stock Price, Gun Sales Soar as Obama Announces Gun Rules

Started by mystery-ak

Report: Deficit To Soon Skyrocket To Historic World War II Heights

Started by rangerrebew

Immigrants in the Workforce, State by State and Industry By Industry

Started by rangerrebew

TransCanada’s $15B Lawsuit Against U.S. on Keystone XL Presents Strong Case

Started by HAPPY2BME

30 stats to show to anyone that does not believe the middle class is being destroyed

Started by rangerrebew

Job-Market Dropouts Increasingly Likely to Stay Out

Started by Oceander

US not headed in right direction, some on Main Street say. NFIB surveyed small businesses on issues as the election season intensifies

Started by rangerrebew

$765,645,000,000: FY2016 Taxes Set Record Through December; $5,107 Per Worker; Feds Still Run $215.5B Deficit

Started by rangerrebew

Costco to dump $2.6m of peanut butter in New Mexico landfill

Started by Oceander

The ghosts of America's long-term unemployed

Started by Oceander

Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago

Started by HAPPY2BME

CBO: Everyone’s taxes will go up quietly

Started by mystery-ak

Will Prices Rise Significantly When Velocity of Money Picks Up?

Started by Oceander

Investors smell 2008 as Dow takes another hit. Worst start to a year since Great Depression

Started by rangerrebew

Bengt-Ake Lundvall: The Portuguese Manifesto Sends a Message to Europe’s Elite That Austerity Has Failed and “Project Europe” Must be Rethought

Started by Oceander

10,000 LAID OFF - Schlumberger, Southwestern Energy announce major layoffs

Started by HAPPY2BME

Global Economy This Week: US Adds Jobs, China Cools

Started by Oceander

Moody's: NJ Pension Move Shows Weakness of State Finances

Started by Oceander

Los Angeles Public Pension Fund Tells Us It Is a Happy, Trusting Victim of Investment Managers

Started by Oceander

New IRS rules make using Bitcoins a fiasco

Started by Oceander

$8,314,529,850,339.07: Debt Up $70,612.91 Per Household in Obama’s First 7 Years

Started by rangerrebew

Moody's downgrades Chicago debt to 'junk' with negative outlook

Started by Paladin

Another Massive U.S. Company just Left the Country

Started by rangerrebew

Michael Lewis: Markets are 'rigged'

Started by Oceander

Yellen signals that still-subpar job market needs Fed's continued low-rate policies

Started by Oceander

American farmers confront 'big data' revolution

Started by Oceander

NewsCorp chief hits WaPo's 'high priests'

Started by Oceander

S&P 500 Climbs to Fifth Straight Quarterly Gain Thanks to Fed

Started by Oceander

Federal labor agencies are ambushing the economy’s job-creators.

Started by rangerrebew

Obama 'recovery'? $16.5 trillion plunge in global equity markets

Started by rangerrebew

Rapidly rising household debt predicts recessions. See America’s future - America’s ratio of household debt to GDP

Started by HAPPY2BME

What Happens To The Unemployment Rate If You Add Back Labor Force Dropouts?

Started by mystery-ak

IMF boss Lagarde warns economy 'too weak for comfort'

Started by Oceander

People Over 50 Carrying More Debt Than in the Past. The average 65-year-old borrower has 47% more mortgage debt than those in 2003

Started by rangerrebew

Wal-Mart Extends Black Friday Shopping Deals to Five Days

Started by mystery-ak

Giving up: 40% women, 28% men, 39% youth don't want a job

Started by mystery-ak

Ohio lost 112,500 jobs due to trade with TPP countries

Started by rangerrebew