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Compensation costs up 0.9% Sep 2024 to Dec 2024 and up 3.8% over the year ending Dec 2024 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 608
Bureau of Economic Analysis: Streamlining of News Release Packages Continues 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 683
Job Cuts Rise 5.5% Over Last Year; 38,792 in December 2024 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 1070
PCE Report Today: Inflation Likely Sped Up in December, Based on Fed's Favored Gauge 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 636
US President signs executive order banning CBDCs 4 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1503
'It's an Illegal Executive Order. And It's Stealing.' (The Atlantic) 3 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 17 1313
The Fed Is About to Hit Pause on Rate Cuts. Here's Why. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 1208
December jobless rates up in 6 states, down in 2; payroll jobs up in 2 states 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 626
Trump asks federal agencies to make RTO plans for workers living more than 50 miles from an office 6 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1459
Musk visits OPM following workforce assignments for DOGE 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 884
This week's (Jan. 27 - Jan. 31) and next week's (Feb. 3 - Feb. 7) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 511
US FCC will drop Biden plan to ban bulk broadband billing for tenants 0 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 670
Retirees -- Opinions? Experiences? Is 14% Div Too Good To Be True? 10 GreatGazoo Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 1632
What Is China's DeepSeek and Why Is It Freaking Out the AI World? 2 Passages Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1032
BLS: System maintenance scheduled for Sunday, January 26, 2025 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 960
Expect record-high egg prices for most of the year 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1158
Trump challenges BofA CEO Moynihan: 'I hope you start opening your bank to conservatives' 3 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 972
Boeing lost $3.5 billion due to labor strikes and layoffs in the fourth quarter 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 714
Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level Since 2008 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 659
F.B.I. Pick Pushed False and Misleading Claims About Trump Investigations 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 757
Trump says 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico coming on Feb. 1 as he signs several orders on economy 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 1567
Why US Bond Yields are Rising (and why it's bad for Trump) - TLDR News Global 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 856
Bank of Japan poised to raise rates to highest in 17 years 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 607
This week's (Jan. 20 - Jan. 24) and next week's (Jan. 27 - Jan. 31) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 578
Why the US Dollar is Surging (and why it's bad for Trump) - TLDR News Global 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 940
Vanguard to pay more than $100 million to SEC over violations involving target date retirement funds 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 807
Stocks could be 'protected' from steep declines by Trump: BofA 6 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 1290
Opinion: Is Trump's bitcoin embrace the biggest 'pump-and-dump' ever? 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1268
Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity 0 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 826
Stock investors brace for possibly the 'most important inflation reading in recent memory' 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 1037

Economy Continued...

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NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing 7 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 12 1920
Stock-market investors are getting nervous about this bond-market move that's only happened twice in over 40 years 5 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 1672
China's Trade Surplus Reaches a Record of Nearly $1 Trillion 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 912
This week's (Jan. 13 - Jan. 17) and next week's (Jan. 20 - Jan. 24) major U.S. economic reports 2 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 700
IRS 'prepared' for 2025 filing season, but potential spending cuts loom for the agency 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 738
Altice to spend millions on internet upgrades in settlement with West Virginia 0 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 636
A delay in GOP's tax plans could push up costs by hundreds of billions 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 988
WATCH: Biden speaks on jobs and the economy days before leaving White House - MSNBC 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 673
December jobs report expected to show hiring slowdown, steady unemployment rate 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 1 741
BLS Report: November job openings, hires, and total separations change little; quits decrease 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 0 664
Editorial: Why Canada should join the EU 4 Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 Jan 2025 3 1642
This week's (Dec. 30 - Jan. 03) and next week's (Jan. 06 - Jan. 10) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 728
30Y Mortgage rate 6.91%, highest level since early July. AND NO, INTEREST RATES ARE NOT COMING DOWN 12 nmmi Jan 2025 Jan 2025 2 2690
Crypto fugitive Do Kwon extradited to US over $40bn crash 2 nitpicked Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 972
Yellen Warns 'Extraordinary Measures' Will Be Needed to Avoid Default. 3 elleng Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1411
The 10 Biggest Myths About Our Economy - Robert Reich 3 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1452
S Korean crypto-boss Do Kwon to be extradited to US 0 Eugene Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 775
Trump wants federal workers back in the office. It may be a tall task. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1667
Wall St. Is Minting Easy Money From Risky Loans. What Could Go Wrong? 5 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1792
Richard Parsons, former Time Warner CEO, dies at age 76 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 821
USDOT issues 2021-24 supply chain review 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 681
This week's (Dec. 23 - Dec. 27) and next week's (Dec. 30 - Jan. 03) major U.S. economic reports 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 777
A Looming Threat to Bitcoin: The Risk of a Quantum Hack 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1351
Insurance and Taxes Now Cost More Than Mortgages for Many Homeowners 7 usonian Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1961
"The Economist" Cover Curse, Explained. (as in "The Madden Curse" ) and other observations. 0 usonian Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 888
Claudia Goldin, 2023 Nobel Prize winner in Economics: 'Feminism became a very bad word in the United States' 1 cbabe Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1030
Salaries of $500,000 and up are 'a dime a dozen' in this California region, report says 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1380
The Surprising Way Credit Cards Make Money - PolyMatter 2 TexasTowelie Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1137
These steelworkers want a U.S. Steel sale. Biden and Trump don't. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 867
Packed Cubicles, Empty Corner Office: Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 989

Economy Continued...

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BLS Report: October job openings, hires, and total separations change little; quits increase 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1377
UHC behind most of stock losses. 1 Cattledog Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 1055
The Fed has a big interest rate decision coming Wednesday. Here's what to expect 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1206
Stock market today: Dow logs longest losing streak since 1978 as stocks slide ahead of Fed decision 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 1186
This week's (Dec. 16 - Dec. 20) and next week's (Dec. 23 - Dec. 27) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 652
Trump FINALLY ADMITS supporters will SUFFER under his economic SCAM - Meidas Touch 3 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1203
Despite Trump's claim, deportations likely wouldn't ease housing crisis, most experts say 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1115
US hikes tariffs on imports of Chinese solar wafers, polysilicon and tungsten products 1 nitpicked Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 811
Strong Australian Jobs Data Spurs Paring of Rate-Cut Bets 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 618
Are You In The Top 3% Of Retirees? Here's The Shockingly Low Amount You Need Saved To Rank Among The Richest 11 nmmi Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 3029
The excuses have already started. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 17 2662
The Truth About Trump's Trade War That No One Will Say Out Loud - Paul Warburg 3 TexasTowelie Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1721
Scott Bessent, Trump's Pick for Treasury Secretary, Doesn't Fit His Loyalist Mold. 1 elleng Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1129
Federal Judge Blocks $25 Billion Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Merger. 2 elleng Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 881
A Kid Made $50,000 Dumping Crypto He'd Created. Then Came the Backlash 18 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 34 3975
Republicans are feeling great about the economy again. Democrats are really worried 2 Libloom Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1547
This week's (Dec. 9 - Dec. 13) and next week's (Dec. 16 - Dec. 20) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 651
Trump picks former Rep. Billy Long for IRS commissioner 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 1119
Stocks 2 Joe Cool Dec 2024 Dec 2024 0 1285
Musk, Ramaswamy have few answers for tough DOGE questions from GOP 3 Eugene Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1115
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