Initial jobless claims for the week ending February 11 fell to the lowest numbers in four years, a sign that employees are in greater demand […]
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Retail Sales Up, Car Sales Down
Retail sales rose 0.4% in January, well below expectations in a sign that the economy isn’t recovering quite as quickly as economists would like to […]
The Upside to the Widening Trade Deficit
The U.S. trade deficit grew in December and overall in 2011 for the second year in a row, a sign the economy is picking up […]
The Huntsman Paradox
What’s Jon Huntsman Jr. to do? While the former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China seems to be roundly liked by many on both […]
Not Too Big To Fail
Flexibility and growth. Those are the two words being repeatedly talked about as a chief justification for the Private Company Flexibility and Growth Act (H.R. […]
Regulation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Take a look around. Everyone’s angry. The 99% are upset that they haven’t been getting their fair share. The 1% is angry at the suggestion […]
Consumer Lending Institutions Face Strong Headwinds
It seems that banks have been taking a battering in the current post-recession climate as a potentially fatal cocktail of uncertainly arising from the European […]
What Every Start-Up Can (And Should) Learn From Groupon
Groupon was the latest Internet juggernaut to IPO this year after LinkedIn did so back in March, officially going public after a long-awaited, much-scrutinized […]
Beyond Meredith Whitney
From a bird’s eye view of recent headlines, it seems an awful lot of people are focused on beating Meredith Whitney’s dire 2010 forecasts for […]
What if… ?
What if Democrats and Republicans could come together to present as united a front on solving the country’s economic problems as they have, for all […]