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Chicago is not representative of the entire Federal Reserve. But it is a key district for manufacturing and is frequently…
A look at the companies which announced layoffs in December and January demonstrates that almost no industry is immune from…
There are an extremely small number of companies which are likely to do relatively well during the recession, either because…
Some of the companies that need to let people go have lost such a large portion of their sales that…
A number of seemingly unrelated pieces of news in the last day showed that several high profile people and organizations…
Factory orders for the month of December fell as you would expect for the current economy. But the results were…
News came out that pending home sales moved up 6.3% in December and this caused a lot of conversation about…
The Institute for Supply Management has released its January non-manufacturing data. The services economy isn’t pretty. But it also isn’t…
Covering U.S. and global economic data is not exactly the most optimistic of topics today. The good news is that…
As you would imagine, personal income and spending are coming into negative territory. Incomes are still holding up relatively well,…
Some communicable diseases can be traced back to what medical researchers call "patient zero", the first carrier of an illness…
The government reported that fourth quarter GDP contracted at an annual rate of 3.8%.That does not approach the 7.8% in…
Bloomberg’s poll of economists shows that the experts think US GDP contracted 5.5% in the fourth quarter. A drop of…
Arnold Schwarzenegger may believe that he would be sitting in Barak Obama’s chair in the Oval Office if only he…
Mark Twain and Will Rogers shared a sentiment. As Twain said, “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore”. It would…
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