There are two big forces at work that will together determine the future of the stock market, corporate profits and workers’ pay. And as Corporate America starts to report how it did at the start of 2013 (Aluminum giant Alcoa was the first major company to put out its first quarter results this week, but… Read more »
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Stephanopoulos Doesn’t Ask Obama Senior Adviser Anything About Jobs or Economy
There was a lousy jobs report from the Labor Department last Friday that has led some people to fear the already soft economic recovery might be slowing down. Despite this, ABC's George Stephanopoulos, during a lengthy This Week interview with Barack Obama senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer Sunday, didn't ask one single question about that report… Read more »
Maher And Bernie Sanders Explode At GOP Panelists Over Obama’s Economy: Where Were Deficit Hawks Under Bush?
On Bill Maher‘s show tonight, Senator Bernie Sanders and Wall Street Journal columnist Steve Moore got into a number of heated back-and-forths over the state of the economy, which side is to blame for the crisis the country is in, and what the U.S. needs to do about greenhouse gases. At one point during an… Read more »
Economy adds 88,000 jobs as hiring drops, fewer people looking for work
U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, as hiring slowed and tens of thousands of people stopped looking for work — in a reminder of the job market’s shaky health. Source: FOXNews.com