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Mark Gongloff

7 Reasons The Jobs Report Might Be Lousy Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Video, Unemployment, Economics, Economy, Jobs Report May 2012, Employment, Jobs Report, Economic Data, Jobs, Unemployment Report, Employment Report, Business News

It's almost that time again, America: We're less than 24 hours away from the latest jobs report, which could help decide the 2012 presidential electio...

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Where The Price Of Oil Is Headed

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil, Energy, Economic Data, Gas Prices, Oil-Prices-Drop, Energy Costs, Oil Prices May 2012, Price of Oil, Money News

NEW YORK — The price of oil is headed for its biggest monthly decline since December 2008. Oil has dropped more than 16 percent so far in May, ...

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Economy On The Brink, Again

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Video, Seven and a Half Things, Seven and a Half Things You Need to Know, Economy, Economic Data, Seven and a Half Things to Know, 7.5 Things, Business News

Few people know the true origins of the tradition of getting high at 4:20, but everybody needs to know seven and a half things each day. Here they are...

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Economy Scores Passing Grade, Today Anyway

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Job Market, Retail Sales, Economics, Economy, Ism, Labor Department, Factories, Economic Data, Jobless Claims, Auto Sales, Personal Income, Consumer Spending, Personal Spending, Business News

President Obama has bet a second term on selling an economic comeback. A big truckload of economic data released today suggests he's not losing that b...

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Mark Gongloff

Actually Not Terrible Economic News Drives Stocks To Fresh Highs

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Economic Data, Jobless Claims, Unemployment, Wall Street, Economics, Stocks, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stock Market, Economy, Business News

If yesterday's economic numbers were tasty but small potatoes, today's are a little more like a balanced meal. This morning's batch of economic data, ...

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U.S. Economy Shows Signs Of Momentum

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Gdp US q4, Manufacturing, Economic Data, q4 2011 Economy, Video, Gdp Fourth Quarter, US Economy 2011, Economy q4, Retail Growth, Business News

WASHINGTON (Lucia Mutikani) - The economy showed signs it maintained speed into the fourth quarter as retail sales increased in October and a gaug...

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U.S. Economy May Avoid Recession -- But Only Because Economy Can't Get Much Worse

bloomberg.com | Rich Miller and Simon Kennedy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Banks, BofA Merrill Lynch, Economic Data, Double Dip Recession, Recession, u.s. Economy 2010, Ethan Harris, Business News

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy is so bad that the chance of avoiding a double dip back into recession may actually be pretty good. The sectors of ...

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Economist Andrew Smithers: S&P 500 Overvalued By 40%, Could Plunge

BloggingStocks | Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Economic Data, Economy, Recession, S, Business News

Economist and president of a research firm that bears his name, Andrew Smithers (not related to the Smithers of Mr. Burns fame) is saying our on-fire ...

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No Virgina, the Economic Stats Aren't Manipulated

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Economic Data, Economic Recovery, Statistics, Gdp, Unemployment Rate, Business News
Hale

One of the greatest themes around the economic blogsphere is the government is manipulating the numbers to make things look better than they are. However, this is an easily debunked claim.

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Simon Johnson on the Evidence for Overmighty Finance

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Data, Willem Buiter, Simon Johnson, Economics, Benjamin Friedman, Finance, The Baseline Scenario, John Plender, Investment Banks, Business News
Robert Teitelman

For all its influence, economics doesn't really have much to say about something as fundamental (and yes, complex) as the relationship between the size of the financial sector and growth in the real economy.

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Stocks end quiet session mixed ahead of election

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Finance, Financial Crisis, Economic Data, Recession, Consumer Spending, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street ended the calmest session in recent memory with a narrowly mixed performance Monday as investors largely looked past a we...

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