US economic growth and recession
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Unemployment rate stays at 5.9% and 9 million still out of work as Thanksgiving storms appear not to have hampered figures
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Figures at unusually low level suggest employers are anticipating stronger economic growth
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Opec, the oil cartel, believed it could help production. Instead, it ended up hurting itself as well as the Russian rouble, energy stocks, infrastructure development and more
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Surge in business and consumer spending drove the US economy to an annual growth rate of 3.9% between July and September, but there are still concerns over a slowdown
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The 28-29 October meeting of the Federal Reserve board of governors gave the economy a clean bill of healthy, but noted market concern about Ebola
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Brisbane summit action plan relates to living standards, banks, climate change, Ebola and tax evasion … and much more
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Not since the Great Depression has wealth inequality in the US been so acute, new in-depth study finds
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Analysis The return of the US dollar
Mohamed El-Erian: The resurgence of the US currency could be the first promising step in steering the world economy away from crisis -
Labor Department figures show employers added 214,000 jobs in October but 2.9 million Americans have been without jobs for six months or more
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Trevor Williams: The US has stopped printing money, and both countries seem likely soon to be back in step with modest, gradual interest rate rises
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President speaks at Rhode Island college in speech on better-than-expected GDP report in the final days before midterm elections
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Judge Steven Rhodes hears arguments from pensioners and city lawyers about the deals struck to save city from crushing debt
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The rise in the number of male vasectomies reflects the ways the economy can drastically change the course of our lives
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Business leader America stems the flow of funds – just as China stalls and the eurozone risks going backwards
Business leader: Janet Yellen of the Fed is winding down its quantitative easing programme, but might she soon have to wind it up again? -
Fifteen hours of free childcare a week might not allow mothers to return to work immediately — but it lets them know that the state respects and supports their intention to do so in future, writes Deborah Orr
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William Keegan: It is symbolic that the chancellor of a government that proclaims that “we are all in this together” is travelling upper class while inflicting dangerous cuts on public services
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Chair of the US Federal Reserve says increasing inequality runs contrary to American values and undermines mobility
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Larry Elliott: markets are diving, Germany and the eurozone are weak and there is alarm over Ebola and a potential banking bubble, so the themes were sombre when the IMF and World Bank met in Washington last week
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War game designed to test readiness of central banks as exercise will stress-test new global regulations
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Analysis The biggest sales job in the US: Obama and Ben Bernanke try to convince America the economy is good
‘There is a lot of revisionism out there,’ the former Fed chair said Wednesday. But as he and others protect their legacy, are they trying to make the economy look better than it is? -
Former Treasury secretaries Tim Geithner and Hank Paulson testify during former AIG chief’s lawsuit against government
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Report cites legal costs and regulation as the primary constraints on the securities industry, even as bonuses look likely to rise
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Strong September leads to 5.9% unemployment rate but long-term jobs remain persistent issue for economy eking out growth
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Report singles out Germany and US over need for more public funded investment in transport to boost longer-term growth
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Thomas Piketty is a French economist whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century has swept American discourse. Four experts – Brad DeLong, Tyler Cowen, Stephanie Kelton and Emanuel Derman – take on why that is
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Geopolitical tensions and increased risk taking add to disruption, though world economy expected to pick up during 2015
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Central bank to keep rates near zero ‘for a considerable time’ and says it will exit quantitative easing ‘in a gradual and predictable manner’
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As Guardian US launches its small business coverage, we start with the basics: Small businesses are the engine of the US economy. Here are some surprising facts that illuminate how important they are
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As the city considers what it would mean to disincorporate, its people struggle in the poverty-ridden ‘armpit of the desert’
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US unemployment rate drops to 6.1% but analysts had expected a monthly tally of more than 200,000 jobs
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Analysis Do fast-food strikes actually work?
Evidence shows that the fast-food strikes are working not just to increase wages, but to reinvent unions and bolster long-dwindling membership
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Project Syndicate economists Capitalism needs new rules to restore the growth and stability of postwar era
Joseph E Stiglitz: Simple political changes can reverse the decades of growing inequality wrought by Reaganism and Thatcherism
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GDP grew at 4.2% for the second quarter, topping initial estimate and beating forecasts, Commerce Department announces
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US money blog Billionaires and concubines: A playwright's satirical take on slow US economic recovery
The Jackson Hole Symposium gathers economists far away from civilisation while others write satires about recession and sex
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