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- Unemployment Rate Jumps to 26-year High
- With nearly 7 million jobs lost, the unemployment rate, now at 9.7%, is expected to continue rising.
- Videos 2009-09-04
- Mixed Signs in Jobless Data
- First-time unemployment claims fall to the lowest level in 10 months, but the unemployment rate is still likely to top 10 percent by year's end.
- Videos 2009-10-08
- Whose Recovery Is This?
- Like most recoveries, this has been an uneven one. Wall Street, women, and older workers are thriving, while Main Street, men, and younger workers are simply surviving. Our scorecard shows some of the recovery?s biggest winners and losers so far. Here’s another option: Just ask...
- Articles 2009-11-05
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- Unemployment Report: It Just Ain't Labor's Day
- So the headline number on unemployment is 9.7%. That alone might be enough to send people into the last weekend of summer with the sense that the economy has a long winter ahead of it. But ugly as that 0.3 percentage point jump in the closely watched number is, a...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- The New Job Market: Who Wins and Who Loses?
- Recession, government spending, and demographics are transforming the workforce right before your eyes. To protect your career, make sure you're on the right side of history. If history is any guide, unemployment will continue to rise after the recession bottoms out, according to Steve Hipple, an economist with the...
- Articles 2009-06-24
- Winners and Losers in the New Job Market
- The fall of Lehman and the broader financial crisis have transformed the job market. Among the consequences: Women are now better off than men and part-time is the new full-time. Here's how you can succeed in the new economic order. But it’s not the sheer numbers of jobs shed...
- Articles 2009-09-15
- How to Refinance Now and Avoid Rejection
- With interest rates absurdly low, you may be eager to refinance. But lenders are finding all kinds of ways to say no. Here are the five most common refi killers, and how to avoid becoming a victim. But when the bank pulled their...
- Articles 2009-12-07
- The Fed's Comments Last Week, and the Market's Reaction Since
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- What's Next: 4 Big Predictions for the U.S. Economy
- The global landscape has changed for good. Here are our biggest predictions for after the shakeout — plus suggestions for what you should do about them. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- Rising Interest Rates Are Killing the Recovery
- A sheaf of economic indicators this week indicates the recovery is in deep trouble. The biggest shock was a sharp increase in bond yields. The yield on 10 year Treasury bonds rose to a peak of four percent, the highest since last August, before pulling back to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Unemployment Hasn't Crushed the Green Shoots
- As a sendoff into the 4th of July holiday, June's rise in unemployment to 9.5% was plenty discouraging. The gloom was pretty well crystallized in this New York Times op-ed by Bob Herbert, which quoted the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, as saying that if...
- Blog posts 2009-07-03
- A Second, Direct Stimulus May Be In The Works
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Lehman Post Mortem: How are YOU Doing a Year Later?
- With all the hoopla around the one-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers' plunge into bankruptcy we need a Miss Manners consult to determine the correct gift to honor such an event, what has really changed in the lives of ordinary Americans? The CBS MoneyWatch.com Team talked to a bunch of people...
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Jobs Report: Patience and Fortitude Required
- The BLS November Employment Report is out and the news is better than expected. 11,000 jobs lost (versus estimates of 100,000) and rate dipped to 10% from 10.2% in October. Recovery, here we come, right? Sort of. For months, the news on jobs has been as follows:...
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- 5 Things That Could Kill the Housing Recovery
- The recession can't end until housing bounces back. There are many small signs of hope — and five big reasons to be cautious. ...
- Articles 2009-07-08
- Real Estate Forecast: 3 Things to Know About the Housing Market
- The real estate bubble was one of history's great financial mass delusions, and the market will take years to recover. But some buyers will do very, very well. ...
- Articles 2009-06-26
- Investing in the "New Normal"
- The natural response to the market rally of the past two months was to sigh in relief. Maybe the nightmare was over. Maybe, just maybe, we'd paid our dues, gotten the message about risk, suffered through the exception that proves the rule, and now can we please go back to...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Suntech Bets on the United States
- In a weird reversal of the usual order, Chinese solar company Suntech has announced plans to site some manufacturing operations on American soil. It will spend the next few months determining a location for a factory, and potentially have it in operation within a year or so, producing panels for...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Diane Swonk: What's Next for the Markets?
- Investors may be overly jubilant, but the trend is good, says prominent economist Diane Swonk. She discusses whether she thinks the recent rally is sustainable, which market sectors look good (and which don't), and what could derail a recovery. Swonk...
- Articles 2009-08-06
- Want Recovery? History Says Be Patient. Very Patient.
- Take a long enough perspective, and it is no surprise that what some had been calling the GGBAT the Greatest Global Boom of All Time ended with the GGRSGD the Greatest Global Recession Since the Great Depression. Both the boom and its panicky finale fit neatly into a long, human...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
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