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How Low Can Unemployment Really Go With Obama in Office?
Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images The unemployment rate is, all things considered, looking fairly good. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ numbers show a sustained drop since the end of the Great Recession, and...
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Is Real Estate Still The Best Long-Term Investment?
David McNew/Getty Images Real estate is one of those enduring investments that people believe they can (almost) always rely on. Owning your own home, for instance, has long been considered a...
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Why the U.S. Economy Is Weaker Than Everyone Thought
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The cat’s out of the bag — the U.S. economy actually shrunk during the first quarter of 2015, with GDP regressing 0.7%, per the government’s revised numbers. This is...
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3 Ways to Make Money in the Face of Rising Interest Rates
Alex Wong/Newsmakers via Getty Images So many aspects of the economy are linked together, even when it’s difficult to see exactly how they intertwine. We’ve covered before how decisions by the U.S....
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5 Reasons Americans Are Still Concerned About the Economy
(Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) “After reaching a two-year high earlier this year, satisfaction with the direction of the U.S. continues to wane,” Gallup found, based on data from an early May...
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Why So Many Young People Hate the Stock Market
Source: Thinkstock Since the recession, middle class Americans have been avoiding the stock market, largely citing a lack of funds to invest. And with the economy still slow to recover, an entire...
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Americans Have Been Saving Too Much Money, And It’s a Big Problem
Source: iStock If there’s one area in which we’ll probably never get a crystal clear picture of what’s going on, it’s the economy in the United States. Some analysts predict we’re headed toward...
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Who Cares About Wall Street Anymore? Why You Should
Source: Paramount Pictures We’re just getting started in the new year, which means you’ve got plenty of time to think about job changes, creating a feasible budget, and other related financial and...
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One Hard Economic Truth We Need to Address
Source: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Barack Obama’s presidential legacy is beginning to congeal. The president, who’s been in office for six years now, has led the nation back from the brink of economic...
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Why Low Interest Rates May Not Help the Economy Fully Recover
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images After seeing the United States through its worst global crisis since the Great Depression, the former chairman of Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, has taken to explaining...
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