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ThinkstockMost investors and savers worry about inflation through time. The problem is that deflation may be even worse. The latest…
ThinkstockThe National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Tuesday morning reported that its small business optimism index for April rose 1.8…
ThinkstockVermont’s legislature did what many members of Congress and the president would like to do. It raised the minimum wage…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) at noon Friday, offering…
ThinkstockA reading on wholesale trade was released on Friday morning by the U.S. Commerce Department. This is for the month…
While the trend for payrolls and unemployment has been better, the great compression in weekly jobless claims had not been…
ThinkstockThe people of Utah as the most generous in America. According to a new poll from Gallup: Utah leads U.S.…
ThinkstockIf bonds are rallying, yields are dropping, often due to worries that the economy will slow down or that bonds…
ThinkstockProductivity and unit labor costs were very mixed in the first quarter of 2013. Much of this seems to be…
ThinkstockFrom 1998 through 2007, the federal minimum wage was set at $5.15 an hour. Over a three-year period, the minimum…
Courtesy Maersk LineThe U.S. international trade balance, or the trade deficit, came in largely in line with expectations for the…
Courtesy Starbucks Corp.After a solid jobs report on Friday and after more good news from the Conference Board on Monday,…
ThinkstockThe Conference Board Employment Trends Index rose in the month of April, a trend that coincides perfectly with the Labor…
ThinkstockA recession is defined as “a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsVarious data was supporting a strong jobs number for this Friday, and the Labor Department confirmed…
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