Job layoffs in August were a notable improvement from July. However, the 2015 year-to-date total is up 31% from the same period a year ago....
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Optimism surrounded Thursday's release of the June U.S. Labor Department Jobs Report, but although the numbers were better than expected, we...
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There is another side to the U.S. unemployment problem: Believe it or not, there are three million jobs going...
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Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Dr. Paul...
After narrowly missing the fiscal cliff, the President went out of...
It's only been a little more than a week since Shinzo Abe won election as Japan's latest Prime Minister in a landslide-election victory and the...
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Now that we are left with a two-horse race for president, the markets are going to begin to handicap the November results. However, when...
Just when it looked like we could take a breather from the Strait of Hormuz, all attention is back on Iran. There are three reasons for...
There are many reasons why the Occupy...
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most commonly used measure of economic growth. But GDP isn't just inaccurate and misleading - it's the ...
As the debt-ceiling debate escalates, U.S President Barack Obama says federal tax increases are necessary to close the U.S. budget ...
If this week's economic reports showed us anything, it's the fact that two years into what's supposed to be an economic recovery, the U.S. housing...
There's no getting around the fact that the U.S. jobs market is bleak. Ultimately, though, it's a stark reminder that as investors, we should be...
The housing market remains in the dumper. U.S. stocks - despite a rally - are still 22% below their record highs of two years ago. And the...
Banks seized more homes in August than in any month since the housing bubble burst in 2007, even as the number of homes entering the foreclosure...