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Business Confidence

What Are the Real Jobs Numbers?

Harlan Green | Posted 09.12.2012 | Business
Read More: Consumer Spending, Nonfarm Payrolls, Consumers, Construction Spending, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Job Creation, Business Confidence, Jobs Numbers, Business News
Harlan Green

Consumers, perk up. Things may not be so bad, as the confidence surveys indicate. History, in fact, may repeat itself.

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'If You're Anxious, You Sit On Your Hands'

AP | SCOTT MAYEROWITZ | Posted 08.02.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, Business Confidence, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Employers Anxious Hiring, Employers Anxious, Business News, Joblessness, Ap, Employers Hiring, Business News

NEW YORK (AP) — Business has picked up. Yet American companies are too nervous to step up hiring. The economy seems so gripped by unc...

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U.S. Small Businesses More Confident Than International Counterparts

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 04.10.2012 | Small Business
Read More: Sage Small Business Accounting, Sage, Consumer Confidence, Business Confidence, Sage Business Index, Small Business Survey, Business Confidence Survey, Small Business News and Trends, Sage Index, Small Business News

U.S. small businesses are feeling better about the economy and are more confident than business owners from other nations around the world, according ...

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Bonnie Kavoussi

It's Only Getting Worse: Economists' Latest Dire Prediction

HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.13.2012 | Business
Read More: U.S. Economy, Consumer Confidence, Video, Business Confidence, Gdp, The Conference Board, Economy, Lynn Franco, Gdp Growth, Business, Economic Growth, Consumption, Conference Board, Kenneth Goldstein, Consumer Spending, Business News

"The economy that we had before the recession is gone," said Kenneth Goldstein, economist at the Conference Board. "It's not coming back." The U.S....

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Summers: At Davos, Focus Should Be On Boosting Business Confidence

Reuters | Posted 06.04.2012 | Business
Read More: Larry Summers Davos, Video, Reuters, Davos 2012, Economic Uncertainty, Larry Summers, Economic Recovery, World Economic Forum 2012, Business-Confidence, Business News

(Fixes advisory line. Lawrence Summers, Charles w. Eliot University professor at Harvard and a former U.S. Treasury secretary, is a Reuters columnis...

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