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A good doctor will not simply make a diagnosis based on measurements. The symptoms and complaints expressed by the patient are at least as...
There's a Jamaican saying, "the higher the monkey climbs up the tree, the more his butt is exposed."
The point being that the...
When it comes to spending or saving, it's always a contentious debate.
But the risks are rarely as high as they are now for the U.S....
Doing what they can to survive in a dour job market, millions of Americans exist in an underground economy that has ballooned to $2 trillion...
So much for the war on drugs. For the first time ever, a majority of Americans now support legalizing marijuana.
According a new...
We haven't stepped into the Twilight Zone, but it certainly seems that way when stocks are hitting historic highs yet the economy is still so...
The U.S. manufacturing renaissance is not just a fantasy - it is actually happening. Jobs that had been outsourced to China and elsewhere really...
The government's numbers - primarily the monthly data on unemployment and inflation - tell the story of a slow but gradual recovery by the
Young Americans are falling deeper and deeper into a financial crisis that will be nearly impossible to escape from in their...
Rapidly increasing sales of Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F)...
Washington's rushed fiscal cliff deal failed to resolve half of the issue at hand: what to do about the $1.2 trillion in automatic
The December U.S. jobs report released Friday showed the country's...
The ADP employment report out today (Thursday) offered a glimpse of what to expect Friday in the December U.S. jobs report from the Labor...
Even though Ben Bernanke's Fed has kept interest rates close to zero,
In the final hours to reach a deal, progress was made today (Friday) in averting a port strike that could cripple most major ports along the U.S....
The U.S. economy in 2013 should get a badly needed push from the acceleration of an improbable trend - the return of offshored manufacturing jobs...
Anyone who hoped the U.S. economy would get back on track in 2011 was sorely disappointed. The European sovereign debt crisis and the...