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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has released a monthly Business Leaders Survey, which is a semi-live reading as the data is for October.
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In a sensitive economy in which growth is slowing enough that recession fears are high, every single economic report is given a very close look.
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As news of the opioid epidemic are on front pages around the country, that and other substance abuse problems plague almost half of America's families. Portions of the trouble continue to rise year...
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The thought of negative interest rates in the United States is almost impossible to imagine. Now a paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is pointing out how and where negative...
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The IMF has released an update to its latest World Economic Outlook with lower growth expected this year, but it is still looking for global growth to be better in 2020 than in 2019.
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Total U.S. student loan debt is more than five times higher than it was in 2013 and the average loan per borrower has nearly tripled. Who are these borrowers and will they repay?
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As the visibility and number of mass shootings in the United States rises, so has the worry that people or their families will be victims, according to Gallup.
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A cost of living adjustment brought payouts up by 1.6% for the more than 63 million Americans who take Social Security benefits starting in January of 2020.
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Measuring the true rate of inflation might not be as easy as it seems. After a weak wholesale inflation reading for September, consumer inflation ticked up in September.
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According to the latest estimate by the Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. government ran a budget deficit just shy of $1 trillion in the recently closed fiscal year.
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Small business optimism slips again but remains generally positive as well as uncertain.
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The Federal Reserve has been trying to get inflation closer to its 2% mandate for some time, but the current economy just isn't allowing it.
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The forecast for U.S. economic growth this year and next has deteriorated according the most recent survey of economists by the National Association of Business Economics. Four out of five believed...
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The latest forecast of the National Association of Business Economists puts gross domestic product expansion at less than 2% next year.
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