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More than 70 million Americans have more credit card debt than they have in emergency savings, the highest rate in almost a decade.
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In the Federal Reserve's endless quest to raise interest rates in the past two years, one of the big concerns with a strong economy and with better wage growth was that inflation might get out of...
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Americans are feeling more and more confident about their finances in 2019. It turns out that the stock market panic late in 2018, all the trade war fears and even a partial government shutdown did...
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Small business optimism dropped by more than three points in January just six months after posting a record high.
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A professor at Oxford University has said that "Without biodiversity, there is no future for humanity." But what if the conceptual frameworks underpinning what is known as biodiversity and the...
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The minimum wage has been raised in a number of states and cities recently. Wage increases in 28 states went into effect at the start of this year and three more states and the District of Columbia...
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More CEOs left their jobs in January than in any single month since Challenger, Gray & Christmas began reporting the data in 2002.
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The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has released its non-manufacturing survey results for January of 2019.
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Global democracy continues its slow decline according to the latest "Freedom in the World" report from Freedom House. The U.S. ranks 51st in the new report, unchanged from its position in 2017.
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The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey in January reached its lowest point since President Trump's election. Those surveyed remained positive about their own financial prospects.
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The jobs market continues to be strong. Government shutdown or not, this looked like a big report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for January's employment situation.
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Wednesday marked one of the market days where the public was waiting to see what Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would do with...
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The economic reports for January have so far been a bit puzzling. While the readings have indicated slower growth, things were complicated by the long partial government shutdown.
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The Conference Board reported Tuesday morning that its consumer confidence index for January dipped on the back of the government shutdown and tumultuous financial markets.
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This year's Super Bowl could cost employers as much as $4.4 billion in lost productivity as employees spend some time this week talking about the game and more time Monday dissecting the outcome....
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