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This week's (Jan. 13 - Jan. 17) and next week's (Jan. 20 - Jan. 24) major U.S. economic reports 2 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 0 194

Markets - graphs: Dow, Oil, Dollar, Pound, Euro 4 progree Sep 2024 Sep 2024 5 1458

Welcome to the Economy Group 0 Hugin Jul 2024 Jul 2024 5 487

Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity 0 littlemissmartypants 3 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 1 257

Opinion: Is Trump's bitcoin embrace the biggest 'pump-and-dump' ever? 2 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 6 459

Stock investors brace for possibly the 'most important inflation reading in recent memory' 2 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Wednesday 3 401

NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are really changing 7 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 12 849

Stock-market investors are getting nervous about this bond-market move that's only happened twice in over 40 years 5 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 8 779

China's Trade Surplus Reaches a Record of Nearly $1 Trillion 2 mahatmakanejeeves Monday Monday 1 321

How the Ski Business Got Too Big for Its Boots 8 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 11 683

IRS 'prepared' for 2025 filing season, but potential spending cuts loom for the agency 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 3 298

Altice to spend millions on internet upgrades in settlement with West Virginia 0 Eugene Saturday Saturday 1 189

A delay in GOP's tax plans could push up costs by hundreds of billions 0 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 5 479

WATCH: Biden speaks on jobs and the economy days before leaving White House - MSNBC 0 Rhiannon12866 Friday Friday 4 238

December jobs report expected to show hiring slowdown, steady unemployment rate 1 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 1 200

BLS Report: November job openings, hires, and total separations change little; quits decrease 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 7 Jan 7 0 210

Editorial: Why Canada should join the EU 4 Unladen Swallow Jan 3 Jan 4 2 657

This week's (Dec. 30 - Jan. 03) and next week's (Jan. 06 - Jan. 10) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 3 Jan 3 2 320

30Y Mortgage rate 6.91%, highest level since early July. AND NO, INTEREST RATES ARE NOT COMING DOWN 12 nmmi Jan 2 Jan 2 2 956

Crypto fugitive Do Kwon extradited to US over $40bn crash 2 nitpicked Dec 31 Dec 31 2 405

Yellen Warns 'Extraordinary Measures' Will Be Needed to Avoid Default. 3 elleng Dec 28 Dec 28 4 568

The 10 Biggest Myths About Our Economy - Robert Reich 3 Rhiannon12866 Dec 23 Dec 28 7 625

S Korean crypto-boss Do Kwon to be extradited to US 0 Eugene Dec 27 Dec 27 2 281

Trump wants federal workers back in the office. It may be a tall task. 6 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 27 Dec 27 4 796

Wall St. Is Minting Easy Money From Risky Loans. What Could Go Wrong? 5 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 27 Dec 27 5 902

Richard Parsons, former Time Warner CEO, dies at age 76 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 27 Dec 27 2 367

USDOT issues 2021-24 supply chain review 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 26 Dec 26 3 278

This week's (Dec. 23 - Dec. 27) and next week's (Dec. 30 - Jan. 03) major U.S. economic reports 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 24 Dec 24 1 263

A Looming Threat to Bitcoin: The Risk of a Quantum Hack 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 23 Dec 24 5 648

Insurance and Taxes Now Cost More Than Mortgages for Many Homeowners 7 usonian Dec 23 Dec 24 7 899

Economy Continued...

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Rail Safety Megathread. Updated December 23, 2024 [View all] 112 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 Dec 23 5 30864

Oil Train Safety Megathread. Updated December 23, 2024 [View all] 78 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2015 Dec 23 5 30455

"The Economist" Cover Curse, Explained. (as in "The Madden Curse" ) and other observations. 0 usonian Dec 22 Dec 22 1 393

Claudia Goldin, 2023 Nobel Prize winner in Economics: 'Feminism became a very bad word in the United States' 1 cbabe Dec 22 Dec 22 5 417

Salaries of $500,000 and up are 'a dime a dozen' in this California region, report says 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 22 Dec 22 4 764

The Surprising Way Credit Cards Make Money - PolyMatter 2 TexasTowelie Dec 21 Dec 21 3 621

These steelworkers want a U.S. Steel sale. Biden and Trump don't. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 20 Dec 20 1 358

Packed Cubicles, Empty Corner Office: Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 20 Dec 20 1 458

BLS Report: October job openings, hires, and total separations change little; quits increase 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 3 Dec 20 3 575

UHC behind most of stock losses. 1 Cattledog Dec 19 Dec 19 2 557

The Fed has a big interest rate decision coming Wednesday. Here's what to expect 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 18 Dec 18 3 603

Stock market today: Dow logs longest losing streak since 1978 as stocks slide ahead of Fed decision 2 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 17 Dec 17 2 641

This week's (Dec. 16 - Dec. 20) and next week's (Dec. 23 - Dec. 27) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 16 Dec 16 2 294

Trump FINALLY ADMITS supporters will SUFFER under his economic SCAM - Meidas Touch 3 Rhiannon12866 Dec 14 Dec 16 4 542

Despite Trump's claim, deportations likely wouldn't ease housing crisis, most experts say 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 15 Dec 15 7 484

US hikes tariffs on imports of Chinese solar wafers, polysilicon and tungsten products 1 nitpicked Dec 13 Dec 13 1 327

Strong Australian Jobs Data Spurs Paring of Rate-Cut Bets 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 13 Dec 13 0 228

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 11 Dec 12 14 1285

The excuses have already started. 10 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 11 Dec 11 17 1501

The Truth About Trump's Trade War That No One Will Say Out Loud - Paul Warburg 3 TexasTowelie Dec 11 Dec 11 7 1163

Scott Bessent, Trump's Pick for Treasury Secretary, Doesn't Fit His Loyalist Mold. 1 elleng Dec 10 Dec 10 1 438

Federal Judge Blocks $25 Billion Kroger-Albertsons Grocery Merger. 2 elleng Dec 10 Dec 10 6 328

A Kid Made $50,000 Dumping Crypto He'd Created. Then Came the Backlash 18 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 9 Dec 10 34 2043

Republicans are feeling great about the economy again. Democrats are really worried 2 Libloom Dec 9 Dec 9 3 863

This week's (Dec. 9 - Dec. 13) and next week's (Dec. 16 - Dec. 20) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 9 Dec 9 0 271

Trump picks former Rep. Billy Long for IRS commissioner 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 9 Dec 9 5 444

Stocks 2 Joe Cool Dec 7 Dec 7 0 671

Musk, Ramaswamy have few answers for tough DOGE questions from GOP 3 Eugene Dec 6 Dec 7 1 534

November jobs report expected to show hiring rebound, unemployment hold steady at 4.1% 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 6 Dec 7 0 328

Lina Khan @linakhanFTC : Great to sit down with @TeamsterSOB 0 Passages Dec 6 Dec 6 3 338

Economy Continued...

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Steven Rattner on Trump's Economic Appointees and Tariff-Heavy Agenda - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 5 Dec 5 2 351

Founder of failed crypto lending platform Celsius Network pleads guilty to fraud charges 0 Eugene Dec 3 Dec 3 2 317

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares steps down as carmaker continues struggle with slumping sales 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 1 Dec 2 3 421

This week's (Dec. 2 - Dec. 6) and next week's (Dec. 9 - Dec. 13) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2 Dec 2 1 237

The US labor market has become 'low-hire, low-fire' 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 28 Nov 28 6 675

Bonds or bond funds bought 5-15 years ago have been barely positive (and mostly negative after inflation adjust) 2 nmmi Nov 27 Nov 28 2 419

This week's (Nov. 25 - Nov. 29) and next week's (Dec. 2 - Dec. 6) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 26 Nov 26 0 271

Canada's inflation rate jumps back to 2%, curbing large rate-cut bets 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 26 Nov 26 0 317

The Crypto Plot Against America's Gold Reserves 2 Passages Nov 26 Nov 26 15 726

This week's (Nov. 18 - Nov. 23) and next week's (Nov. 25 - Nov. 30) major U.S. economic reports 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 17 Nov 25 4 320

Can someone help me decipher this Bloomberg view 12 Mike 03 Nov 22 Nov 25 2 1058

Trump and GOP eye new limits on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 23 Nov 23 0 917

Warren Warns of Potential Impact of More Trump Billionaire Tax Cuts, Paid for by Working Families - Senator Elizabeth Warren 4 Rhiannon12866 Nov 23 Nov 23 18 810

Supreme Court steps into fight over FCC's $8 billion subsidies for internet and phone services 2 Eugene Nov 22 Nov 22 7 589

Jeep prices have gone through the roof. Buyers are bailing and dealers are furious 7 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 21 Nov 22 8 1314

Archegos' Bill Hwang sentenced to 18 years in prison for massive US fraud 0 Eugene Nov 21 Nov 21 1 339

How Trump's tariffs could spark a trade war and 'Europe's worst economic nightmare' 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 20 Nov 20 8 562

Target sounds the alarm bell on holiday shopping 3 bucolic_frolic Nov 20 Nov 20 14 1277

The Stock market rose after Nov 5 but seems to have been going down since 5 question everything Nov 19 Nov 19 4 713

Truth Social investors hoped to get 'very rich' after Trump's win. Not quite. 9 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 19 Nov 19 8 887

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