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Would you rather have an iphone 5 or running water? It might seem like a “well, duh,” kind of question, but it gets to the heart of something important about the jobs and growth debate right now.
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Has anything really changed in the labor market? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself since last Friday’s jobs figures, the most positive in three and a half years, came out. Unemployment is finally below 8%, and …
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Did the debates tell us anything important about the future direction of the economy, and the markets? To find out, listen to this week’s Money Talking on WNYC with The New York Times’ Joe Nocera and Time’s Rana Foroohar.
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For several months now, I’ve been writing about the 2% economy, the current sluggish state of growth in the U.S., one that I expect to hold for some time. But a weekend spent in southern California, in both Orange County and …
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If you ever wonder what kind of economic development might be accomplished in this country with more bipartisan cooperation, consider Columbus, Ohio. It’s become a celebrity city of sorts lately, talked up in a New York Times Magazine piece about the success of Ohio, and visited over a dozen times by the presidential candidates on the …
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High frequency trading now makes up 2/3rds of all trading in the markets, and a lot of experts believe it will be at the center of the next financial crisis. Already, it’s played a role in “flash crashes.” Is it also creating an uneven playing field for the small time investor, and funneling money away from real businesses in favor of …
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Jack Bogle, the founder of mutual fund giant Vanguard, and the man who popularized index funds, is part of an older generation of financiers, including people like Warren Buffett, who believe in long-term, low-cost investing, …
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Tomorrow marks the four year anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers … and the moment when our economy went off the cliff.
Today, with an economy that’s still just sputtering along, Wall Street has come roaring back. Why is the S & P up 14 percent when nearly every bit of real economic news is bad? And has anything really changed …
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The markets hold many mysteries, and here’s a big one: Why the heck is the S&P 500, up 14% this year, behaving as though we’re living large when nearly every piece of real economic data is depressing?
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Women played a traditional role at the national political conventions of the past two weeks, especially in the speeches given by Ann Romney and Michelle Obama. The first lady and the Republican candidate’s wife both used the lens of the family to argue that their husbands should be president. This week on WNYC’s Money Talking, TIME’s …
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It wasn’t what the Obama Administration wanted to hear. The new employment figures out this morning show that the U.S. economy created a mere 96,000 jobs in August, far fewer than the 130,000 that most economists were …
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A weak economy usually spells disaster for an incumbent president. But there are three key factors keeping Obama ahead in the polls.
