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		<title><![CDATA[In the Long Run, We&#39;re All Temps]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To judge by the one percent gain in the S&P 500 and one percent drop in the long Treasury bond (as of 11:30am, when I started writing this post), today's employment report was a positive surprise -- even if the details aren't especially pleasing, in that the improvement was not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:40:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Half Of U.S. Services Businesses Say Things Are Getting Worse]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stock market weakened Thursday morning after a weak report from the Institute for Supply Management on the health of the service sector of the U.S. economy. And weaken it should: under the ISM's classifications, services, or more precisely non-manufacturing concerns, contribute nearly 90 percent of the GDP that comes...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:03:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Have Home Mortgage Modifications Been So Difficult? Ask Sheriff Green]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a crucial story that I have wanted to write on for some time. The feds allocated a ton of money for reworking mortgages, to a program called Making Home Affordable, but which goes by the acronym HAMP -- $75 billion. But only a few homeowners, tens of thousandsÂ ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:15:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Food Stamps Helping One In Eight Americans]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in August I wrote about the USDA's SNAP program, known to most people as food stamps, and how the recession had forced one in nine Americans to seek help from the program in living day-to-day. The number has risen to one in eight -- probably higher since there is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:02:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Different View Says Employment May Be Picking Up]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Kasriel is the insightful and outspoken chief economist at Northern Trust in Chicago. During this crisis and recession he has offered commonsense answers to complicated questions, and seems to have done so again with this week's analysis of unemployment, from a slightly different viewpoint. Rather than rely on macro...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:00:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Are Interest Rates Telling Us? Part III]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to Part I    Link to Part II    U.S. interest rates are exceedingly low these days, as we have seen in the last couple of posts. They are low in spite of the Treasury's selling enormous amounts of bonds to finance our budget deficits,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:38:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Are Interest Rates Telling Us? Part II]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to Part I    Link to Part III    Topping many economists' list of worries is the potential for inflation in the U.S., as well as in the many other countries that force-fed their banks with capital and other assistance. So far, however, it's just...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:19:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Are Interest Rates Telling Us? Part I]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/macro-view/what-are-interest-rates-telling-us-part-i/1226/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Link to Part II    Link to Part III    How far are we from a decent recovery in the U.S. economy? Economists often look for an answer in the relationships among different interest rates. Assuming that cyclical patterns of the past will apply to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:20:52 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Second, Direct Stimulus May Be In The Works]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion of a second stimulus package, with provisions to directly create the millions of jobs that have yet to spring from the first round, comes to us from the astute economist Calculated Risk, via his eponymous blog.    CR is a retired senior executive, from a financial...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:17:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Banks Are Still Shrinking Their Loan Books]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The research staff Federal Reserve reaches out to bank senior loan officers every three months, to get a feel for the markets in lending to business, commercial real estate, home mortgages and credit cards. Like so many economic data points this year, the October 2009 survey tells us that while...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:50:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Fed&#39;s Comments Last Week, and the Market&#39;s Reaction Since]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bernanke era of the Federal Reserve will be remembered by economists and investors for many reasons, but the most flattering is that the Bernanke regime avoids mumbo-jumbo in explaining what it's up to. In its statement last week on the recent Federal Open Market Committee FOMC meeting, the Fed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:54:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retail Sales Beat Last Year&#39;s Weak Turnout, But Are Still In a Slump]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each week, watchers of the retail industry release two different flash reports on the latest sales. The reports, out Thursday, show that late October showed the best numbers in over a year, but as we've seen in housing, car sales, manufacturing, and just about everywhere else, the credit crisis and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:39:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[India Prefers Gold Over Paper, As Developed Economies Pile On Debt]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank of India RBI, the country's central bank, announced it bought 200 metric tons of gold, worth $6.7 billion, from the International Monetary Fund IMF. It's a good-sized purchase in the world of gold, but in wealth terms not that big a deal, even for a so-called emerging...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:01:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What&#39;s Behind That +3.5% GDP Headline]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. stock market rose sharply on Thursday on a surprisingly strong GDP report - the first quarterly growth in more than a year. It's a start to a recovery, but production, employment and consumption are going to have to be more broadly based for the economy to get back...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:31:42 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Durable Goods Orders and Shipments Plod Along]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economists are putting the best face possible on today's report of September 2009 durable goods orders and production, with a percent gain here and there. And yes, September makes five increases out of the last six months. But the drop in manufacturing in this downturn has been staggering, such that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:46:14 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[3Q 2009 Earnings: When Are The Customers Coming Back?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/macro-view/3q-2009-earnings-when-are-the-customers-coming-back/1157/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[After 2009's second quarter, U.S. corporate earnings provided some pleasant surprises to the stock market. The better-than-expected profits generally were the result of cost cutting (giving us today's high unemployment), but investors were not choosy about the source of the profit strength and took stocks higher. Commentators did emphasize at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:53:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Leading Economic Indicators Show A Nice Recovery, But Are They Still Relevant?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Conference Board released its monthly index of Leading Economic Indicators LEI for the U.S. this week, making a string of six positive reports. The index rose by one point, to 103.5; four of this year's monthly gains have been greater than one point, suggesting a strong recovery is in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:34:27 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TARP Inspector General Gives Program, And Treasury, Low Marks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest quarterly report card for the TARP program, released October 21, Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky provides a discouraging record. For the program itself, progress in spurring loan growth is slow, and in spite of news tidbits to the contrary, the return on taxpayers' investment has been poor....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:28:30 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[For Overseas Investors, A 10,000 Dow Is Lost In Translation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[American investors have plenty to be happy about with the Dow at 10,000, but owners of U.S. shares who are based overseas aren't feeling the love - for those investors who measure their wealth in something other than greenbacks, the rally hasn't been as strong.    The drop...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:56:09 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dow 10,000: Sometimes A Number Is Just A Number]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/macro-view/dow-10-sometimes-a-number-is-just-a-number/1119/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An update to my post of September 29th:    Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed above 10,000, restoring the U.S. stock market to pre-crisis levels, with great fanfare from the media. But does the number really mean anything? Unless the Dow at 10,000 coincides with some extreme...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:08:04 -0700</pubDate>
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