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Wikimedia CommonsIn the midst of a period when the U.S. government is cutting expenses and looking for more revenue to…
ThinkstockDetroit has started to auction homes for as little as $1,000 each. Its Building Detroit website launched Monday with 15…
ThinkstockThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its updated estimate of the U.S. federal budget deficit on Monday afternoon. The agency…
ThinkstockRussia is the world’s seventh largest economy based on gross domestic product (GDP). The CIA World Factbook puts its GDP…
ThinkstockThe preliminary April read on the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index rose to a nine-month high of 82.6.…
ThinkstockIf the Federal Reserve ever wanted to see some inflation — as they keep claiming (careful what you wish for)…
ThinkstockYet one more state is about to raise the minimum wage. At the current rate at which states are taking…
Jon OggThe U.S. Treasury may have had a successful 30-year Treasury Bond auction, but the Treasury budget deficit is alive…
ThinkstockCharles Evans, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, was speaking on Wednesday afternoon regarding the Fed’s…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released its minutes of the FOMC’s March 18 to 19 meeting. These comments should, in theory,…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday morning that U.S. wholesale trade rose 0.7% in February to $436.1 billion from a…
ThinkstockThis is a million-dollar question, literally. Maybe even a billion-dollar question, given all the lobbying money being spent on the…
ThinkstockGreece reportedly will announce a long-term bond sale as soon as Wednesday, the first time it has had access to…
ThinkstockNarayana Kocherlakota, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, was speaking on Tuesday in a monetary policy report at…
By International Monetary Fund [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released its updated 2014 to 2015…
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