Archive for the ‘Economics’ Category
Friday, February 1st, 2008
It’s been a wild week on Wall Street. When trading reopened on Tuesday after the Martin Luther King holiday, the Federal Reserve Board responded to world pressure and swooped in with a rate cut to put a floor on Dow losses that were approaching 20 percent since last October. By ...
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
These are tricky times for American investors and consumers in general. The economy seems to be cooling down! The second quarter GDP rose just 2.5 percent, down from 5.6 percent in the first quarter of 2006 and below its average of 3 percent during the recent ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
The federal government announced in mid-January that consumer prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, rose 3.3 percent in 2004, the highest increase since 2000. But do you know what your personal inflation rate was for 2004? Or why it?s important to gauge how much it rose? Or what ...
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