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- Job Forecast: 2010
- Unemployment will probably hover around 10 percent for a year, says Moody's Economy.com's Mark Zandi - but, he adds, the economy is moving in the right direction.
- Videos 2009-11-02
- Mark Zandi's Take on the Housing Crisis, Mortgage Interest Rates and Green Shoots
- With this housing crisis and economic downturn, Mark Zandi has to look at all the moving parts. Chief economist for Moody's Economy.com, a company he founded, he's paying close attention to mortgage interest rates, falling house values, and housing inventory in order to assess whether the so-called "green shoots" are real - or...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Is Hyper-Inflation In Our Future?
- Each week on my Sunday morning radio show, I get asked the same question about hyper-inflation: Is the massive amount of government spending going to cause it? If you're living on fixed-income securities, as so many seniors are, hyper-inflation is terrifying - everything will cost a lot...
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
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- Mortgage Delinquencies Continue to Climb, Watch Out for Other Loans
- Trader Mark submits: It's beginning to get really ugly out there... unfortunately 13 months ago when we were told "this is just a subprime issue" we repeatedly said subprime is a symptom of the problem, not the problem - it is the tip of the iceberg - we have alt...
- External links 2008-09-23
- Should Congress Extend the Tax Credit for Home Buyers?
- Congress is currently debating two bills that would extend the life of the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers, which expires December 1. Is this a good idea? The answer recalls the joke about putting two economists in a room with a problem and getting three answers. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Bernanke Says Economy Improving, Faces Headwinds
- By Mark FelsenthalWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday said the U.S. economy's recovery remained fragile and unemployment may be high for some time, cooling anticipation of an early increase in U.S. interest rates.Three days after news of a surprise fall in the U.S. jobless rate prompted...
- News items 2009-12-16
- Bernanke Says Economy Improving
- By Mark FelsenthalWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday said the U.S. economy's recovery remained fragile and unemployment may be high for some time, cooling anticipation of an early increase in U.S. interest rates.Three days after news of a surprise fall in the jobless rate prompted investors...
- News items 2009-12-16
- Bernanke Says Economy Improving
- By Mark FelsenthalWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke Monday said the U.S. economy's recovery remained fragile and unemployment may be high for some time, cooling anticipation of an early increase in U.S. interest rates.Three days after news of a surprise fall in the U.S. jobless rate prompted...
- News items 2009-12-17
- Bernanke Says U.S. Economy Improving
- By Mark FelsenthalWASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday said the U.S. economy's recovery remained fragile and unemployment may be high for some time, cooling anticipation of an early increase in U.S. interest rates.Three days after news of a surprise fall in the U.S. jobless rate...
- News items 2009-12-17
- Bad News from Labor Dept: What Does It Mean?
- New employment numbers are out from the Labor Department today, and it's not good news. The economy lost 4,000 jobs in August -- that's the first loss in four years and significantly worse than economists expected. The unemployment rate is steady at 4.6%. The markets are a different matter, however,...
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Boomberg: End of CA Housing Decline in Sight?
- Here’s a highly encouraging headline from Bloomberg: “California's Discount Foreclosure Sales Point to Housing Bottom.” A bottom? Bloomberg may be on to something. It reports that home sales in California rose for three consecutive months starting in April. That’s the first time that’s happened in...
- External links 2008-07-31
- Corporate profits decline in 1998
- WASHINGTON AP -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average may have broken the 10,000 barrier earlier this week, but profits "are dead in the water and going nowhere fast," said economist Mark Zandi of Regional Financial Associates in West Chester, Pa. Corporate profits declined last year for the first...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- U.S. unemployment rate up to 4.1% in May
- WASHINGTON AP -- The nation's unemployment rate rose to 4.1 percent in May as businesses cut 116,000 jobs, the biggest reduction in nine years. Friday's report triggered a rally on Wall Street, where it was viewed as the best evidence yet that the red-hot economy is slowing enough to keep...
- Research articles 2000-06-05
- Greenspan's optimism keeps investors happy -- for now
- In testimony before Congress, delivered Tuesday and last week, Alan Greenspan said everything was hunky-dory. Over the next few days investors will get a chance to see if the Fed chairman's optimism is justified. Greenspan, of course, didn't use the term hunky-dory. It isn't technical enough. But...
- Research articles 2000-07-27
- Mixed signals on economy
- WASHINGTON -- Wholesale prices are climbing, industrial production is faltering and housing construction is rebounding, offering mixed signals about the economy. The latest batch of economic reports, released Tuesday, depicted "an OK economy that is moving forward. It's not uniformly strong, but it is still sturdy," said Mark...
- Research articles 2005-05-18
- Fed pumps in $38 billion to try to ease credit crunch
- It sounds ominous when central banks begin pumping money into capital markets to ease a global credit crunch.But the injection of billions in emergency funds here and in Europe this week does not mean the economy is collapsing - at least not yet."So far, it's a crisis in the global...
- Research articles 2007-08-11
- Gas prices fuel surge in inflation Consumer Price Index climbs
- WASHINGTON -- Led by higher gasoline prices, consumer inflation shot up in November by the largest amount in more than two years. In a troubling juxtaposition, the rise in inflation is coming at a time when economic growth is slowing sharply under the weight of a steep...
- Research articles 2007-12-15
- Detroit Free Press Susan Tompor column.
- By Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 9--As much as we'd like to see the Federal Reserve take a step-by-step approach to nudging interest rates higher, the Fed could get caught in a slick spot. It's oil. ...
- Research articles 2004-08-09
- Watch, Listen & Read
- Podcasts What In the archives Coming in August Length Where The Voices of Financial Times Press FT Press and Wharton School Publishing authors share ideas on two channels, Voice of Business and Voice of...
- Research articles 2008-08-04
- U.S. Labor Department predicts South will offer best job potential
- The U.S. Labor Department predicts that in the coming years good jobs will be plentiful in the Southeast, Southwest and in the Rocky Mountain states. Southern cities will be the fastest growing areas because they're expected to offer low taxes, cheap office space and relatively low energy and labor...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
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