2016 Second Quarter Growth: Still Stuck
U.S. ECONOMY SPUTTERING ALONG … The American economy grew at an annualized rate of just 1.1 percent during the second quarter of 2016, according to...
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Consumer Comfort Spike!
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GOOD ECONOMIC NEWS … FOR A CHANGE Some good economic news this week as consumer comfort in America enjoyed its biggest two-week uptick in more...
Consumer Comfort Rebounds
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RAY OF HOPE? It may not seem like it, but we like good news. Especially good economic news. And we don’t really care who takes...
Terrible GDP News
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AMERICA’S ECONOMY IS STUCK IN NEUTRAL The U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of just 1.2 percent during the second quarter of 2016. That’s...
Jobs Disaster: Worst Print Since 2010
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LABOR FORCE IMPLOSION … The U.S. economy produced a dismal 38,000 jobs in May, according to data released this week by the Bureau of Labor...
Consumer Comfort: More Slippage
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BAD JOBS DATA HAVING AN IMPACT … Consumer comfort continues to erode as Americans begin to confront the reality of a worsening national economy. Bloomberg’s Consumer...
More Troubling Jobs Data
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INITIAL UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS ON THE RISE … Looks like there could be more bad news where April’s anemic jobs report came from … According to data...
Another Recession Alarm: Q1 Growth Nonexistent
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AMERICA’S ECONOMIC EXPANSION IS GRINDING TO A HALT The United States economy expanded at its slowest quarterly rate in two years – posting a 0.5 percent...
U.S. Economic Growth: Dueling Bad News
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DUPLICATIVE GOVERNMENT TRACKS TANKING ECONOMY … Talk about double trouble … The federal government’s secretive central bank now has not one but two of its...
Consumer Comfort Slips Again … Quarterly Momentum Stalled
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BAD TREND LINES … Consumer comfort took another step in the wrong direction last week … while the index’s broader quarterly trend lines showed stalled momentum...