Economy
Washington (CNN) -- Twenty-three days since they last met face-to-face and 23 days before the fiscal cliff becomes a harsh reality, the two men most pivotal to the contentious budget talks sat down Sunday.
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Sahara Donahue and activists were evicted by the Idaho Springs Sheriff department around 3 p.m. on October 30, 2012. Yesterday, Donahue went to US Bank's main office in downtown Denver and spoke with a VP about getting a 60 day extension before being evic...
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The American unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to its lowest level in two and a half years in November, despite the many global crises batting against the economy.
The jobless rate fell to 8.6 percent, after having been stuck around 9 percent for mos...
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Some analysts believe that a collapse of the EU will have a calamitous effect on the U.S. economy. But exactly how will that play out, that is, who will get hit the hardest? Although every state would feel the effects of a possible EU collapse, as a halt...
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Harvard University history professor Niall Ferguson says that Americans should be paying more attention to the eurozone crisis. He believes that the issues facing Europe are going to make their way to the U.S. Writing in The Daily Beast, Ferguson explain...
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Millions of student loan borrowers will be eligible to lower their payments and consolidate their loans under a plan President Barack Obama intends to announce Wednesday, the White House said.
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In one of the most hotly-anticipated biographies of the year, "Steve Jobs," author Walter Isaacson reveals that the Apple CEO offered to design political ads for President Obama's 2012 campaign despite being highly critical of the administra...
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Lately, it appears that President Barack Obama has all but given up on trying to work with Republicans.
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Many people ask: What could the government have done better to cushion the blow from the recession? Of course a sizable group would say that the government should have done nothing in the first place, but that is a different article for a different day....
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A projected gain in U.S. payrolls in September was probably too small to bring down the unemployment rate as concern mounted that the global recovery was losing momentum, economists said before a report today.
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Last week, George Soros had faith in the ability of Euro authorities to deal with the financial crisis. But after a Saturday interview with CNN, it would appear that he now agrees with Scottish fund manager Hugh Hendry, who said that politicians have all...
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A new Bay Bridge will connect San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., by 2013. The bridge, which officials are calling ‘the world’s largest self-anchored suspension bridge,’ will cost $7.2 billion when complete, but state decided not to apply for federal fundi...
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In 2009, President Obama promised that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would “create or save” 3.5 million jobs over the next two years and that the unemployment rate would not rise above 8.5 percent. By the end of 2010, he promised, unemploymen...
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