The number of Americans who applied for jobless benefits remained elevated for the third straight week, suggesting some weakening in the U.S. labor market. Jobless claims fell by 1,000 to a seasonally adjusted 388,000 in the week ended April 21, the U.S. Labor Department said Thursday. Claims from two weeks ago were revised up to […]
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Last evening, Treasury Secretary Geithner addressed the Economic Club of New York. His speech was quite moving, he slowly built a clear and understandable path, leading the audience to the conclusion that the US is entering full recovery mode, he detailed, each step of this process, how the Obama Administration slowly planned and executed its
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“So was the book better than the film?” is the often repeated question when a best selling novel is translated to the big screen. Were The Road is concerned the film is arguably not as good as the book, however, the film really is very good. I’ve recently re-watched it and if there is a
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Is there a beer index? If so find out where it is and go long, very long. No stop loss required as there’ll never be a spike, support will never be tested.. It’s not often that you search for an article title and it comes to you. Whilst searching ‘the wires’ for news items to
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides financial assistance for food purchasing to low and no income people and families living in the U.S. It is a federal aid program administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but benefits are distributed by the individual U.S. states. It is historically
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I enjoy watching most sport but I’ve never quite got American Football. However, I do watch the Superbowl from time to time and whilst penning and refining various FXCC articles, mail outs and reports in the early hours of Monday morning I had it on. To be honest the game was fascinating and the three
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As the impact of the 2008-2209 crash subsided the ‘mainstream media commentary collective’ created new buzz words and phrases to be contained in the revised popular lexicon. This list has seen the addition of anachronisms such as “TARP” and the writing into popular culture of “credit crunch” and “quantitative easing”. A “jobless recovery” duly took
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When You’re Born You Get A Ticket To The Freak Show. When You’re Born In America, You Get A Front Row Seat “The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse: You cannot post ‘Thou shalt not steal,’ ‘Thou shalt not commit adultery,’ and ‘Thou shalt not lie’ in a building
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“Never In The Field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed, By So Many, To So Few” I’m trying to think of a phrase that conjures up the strange spirit and times that exist in USA at the moment. “So much owed, by so many, to so few” is growing on me given that the
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The UK Is Back In The Recession It Never Came Out Of. In Reality The USA Is No Different The definition of recessions has altered over the years and varies from country to country and continent to continent. In the UK A recession is defined as two consecutive periods of negative growth. In the USA
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