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Entitlement spending set to crowd out investment, he argues Ex-Fed chair is `terribly concerned' and `a lot frustrated'
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Tesla's gigafactory has sparked a massive economic resurgence in the State of Nevada, with thousands of jobs and billions of dollars expected to enter the economy in coming years
Everyone has seen the pictures of the unemployed waiting in soup lines during the Great Depression
Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN sports network, confronting rising programming costs and a loss of viewers, plans to eliminate as many as 350 positions, about 4.3 percent of its workforce, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Asked if he's concerned about Apple's self-driving car ambitions, Tesla CEO replied: 'Did you ever take a look at the Apple Watch?'
Jobless claims fell by 13,000 to 263,000 in the week ended Oct. 3, the fewest since July 18, a Labor Department report showed Thursday. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for 274,000 applications.
Earlier today amid the general gloom of Europe's sliding non-manufacturing PMIs, the one place that stood out like a sore thumb bucking the deteriorating trend, was France which not only posted an increase from August but also beat expectations.
The federal government uses very carefully manipulated numbers to cover up the crushing economic depression that is going on in this nation.
The September jobs report is out and it looks like somebody's cooking the books. The numbers just do not make sense.
While the Obama administration and their mainstream surrogates maintain that the economy is growing at a booming pace, the reality of the situation is starkly different.
The 142,000 September payroll jobs reported today (2 Oct 2015) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is too small to be consistent with the still high stock averages or the alleged economic recovery.
Self-Driving Trucks on German Autobahn; Millions of Truck and Taxi Driver Jobs will Vanish in US by 2025
In our final look at today's lack of jobs report, we wanted to highlight two quick things.
The labor union that led the charge for a $15 minimum wage hike in cities across California is now moving to secure an exemption for employers under union contracts.
The September jobs report was a big disappointment, but Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg thinks it was actually worse than even the downbeat headline numbers suggest.
On top of today's disastrous jobs report, comes still more weakness in the factory sector.
A self-diagnosed workaholic, Jeanette Russell knows that a real vacation requires her to completely unplug by deleting mobile e-mail applications and letting her work laptop battery die in a corner. It's also company policy.
While the headline ADP print earlier today was modestly better than expected, at +200K, one of its components posted a surprising tumble: with 14,600 manufacturing jobs lost in August, this was the worst month for the US manufacturing sector since Ja
Washington (AFP) - More than 42 million Americans are part of the independent workforce, representing a shift away from traditional jobs as more people join sectors such as the "on-demand" economy, a study showed Tuesday.
When a northern Indian state announced a few hundred job openings for low-level office workers who run errands and make tea, the response was staggering.
Today's business motivational posters -- symbolized most prominently by "Sucessories" -- are the butt of many a joke.
If you've been to a Hooters lately, you've probably noticed something about the servers.
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The Obama administration is telling us that the unemployment rate in the United States has fallen to 5.1 percent, but does that number actually bear any resemblance to reality?
This enactment is beloved by many: students, clergy, journalists, most academics. The present essay is my attempt to interject some basic economics 101 into the discussion.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., in the midst of spending $1 billion to raise employees' wages and give them extra training, has been cutting the number of hours some of them work in a bid to keep costs in check.
Jobs are strong, wages are a mystery and China risk is up
No U.S. coal basin is feeling that pain like Central Appalachia in West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and neighboring states
Federal Reserve officials said last month that while conditions for raising interest rates were approaching, they need more confidence inflation is moving toward their goal, according to meeting minutes that prompted investors to reduce bets for a Se