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Weak Economy Slows Inflation As Housing Starts Rise (airamerica.com)
The economy is weak enough to keep inflation in check but strong enough to increase the pace of home construction and raise hopes for a sustained recovery.
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Credit Card Delinquencies Expected To Slow In 2010
(airamerica.com)
Consumers are expected to further improve their credit management in 2010, but unemployment will hamper the efforts of many Americans to make their credit card payments on time.
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Obama Uses Policy Grab-Bag To Fight Recession (airamerica.com)
President Barack Obama, battling the worst downturn since FDR's time, has put together a grab-bag program that borrows a little from Roosevelt but much more closely resembles the approach taken by... More
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Weekly Audit: Unemployment Fueling Political Storm
(open.salon.com)
Unemployment figures in the U.S. are staggering: The official rate stands at 10.2%, the highest in 26 years. A broader measure that includes people who are involuntarily working part-time or who have... More
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Treasury Finally Focuses TARP On Small Banks And Credit
(airamerica.com)
At crisis' edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue them. Dividend checks are accumulating at the Treasury. Taxpayers won't recoup the full sum of the... More
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Financial Crisis Inquiry Kicks into High Gear
(www.thenation.com)
Americans want to know what went wrong during last year's economic meltdown. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission will find the answers.
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Barney Frank Wants Bailout Interest Payments To Go To Unemployed Homeowners
(airamerica.com)
Rep. Barney Frank said Monday he is pushing a proposal to use some of the interest the government collects from the financial industry bailout to give loans to unemployed homeowners struggling to pay... More
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Weak Home Building Numbers A Drag On The Economic Recovery
(airamerica.com)
The budding economic recovery is getting little help from the home building industry, which normally creates jobs and boosts growth as a recession ends.
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Weekly Audit: Saying 'No' to Corporate America
(open.salon.com)
By proposing financial reforms that won’t curb Wall Street excess, U.S. policymakers have offered an unacceptably weak response to our enormous financial crisis. If voters don’t demand that their... More
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No Economic Disaster Here, Folks. Just Move Along
(www.salon.com)
A conservative economist says Americans are consuming merrily away, so the recession can't have been all that bad
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