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Is Government Health Care Plan Effective or a Mess? »
Posted by: WikiMap 4 weeks ago in News
Currently 18% of our GDP is dedicated to health care costs. These will soar according to the President’s economic advisor to astronomical levels in ...
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Big Banks Are Repaying $50 Billion. Is The financial Boom Just Ahead? »
Posted by: WikiMap 3 weeks, 2 days ago in News
This is good news for the taxpayer as well as the economy. It suggests that banks are healing. Geitner said that the Treasury may need ...
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41% of American GDP is in Debt: Will it be 82% after 10 years? »
Posted by: WikiMap 1 month, 1 week ago in News
The price of oil is up over the last several months as the US dollar index falls to its lowest level in months—in fact ...
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Bank Bailout to Cost Taxpayers $2 Trillion »
Posted by: lovemorgul 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The UK Government’s recent bailout of struggling financial giants Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB looks set to add between £1 trillion and ...
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Debt Help Darling? UK Chancellor’s record breaking £94,000 bill for every family. »
Posted by: lovemorgul 1 week, 4 days ago in Business & Finance
By the government’s own budget figures, the current national debt per family rests at an eye popping £65,000 but it’s set to ...
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What Contributes to Our Economy & GDP? »
Posted by: WikiMap 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
While a lot of attention is focused on big corporations being the engine behind our economy, small business is responsible for a large portion of ...
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Oil falls below $44 on bleak US GDP, AIG news »
Posted by: STONERS 4 months ago in Business & Finance
Oil prices fell to below $44 a barrel Monday as hopes for a quick end to the global slump evaporated amid dismal U.S. economic ...
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How To Destroy (Almost) Half the Planet for the Low, Low Price of Just 5% of Global GDP »
Posted by: eezzbeat 1 week ago in Political News
One of the more engaging critics of the Waxman-Markey ("cap-and-trade") bill that the House approved on Friday is Jim Manzi, whose work appears in a ...
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Worst U.S. economic contraction since 1982 in fourth quarter »
Posted by: Pdlpublic 4 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Just a month ago the U.S. economic contraction measured by gross domestic product for the fourth quarter of 2008 had been estimated at 3 ...
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A revised reading on fourth-quarter gross domestic product was its worst in 26 years. »
Posted by: engineer 4 months, 1 week ago in News
The nation's economic slide during the last three months of 2008 was even sharper than previously estimated, with the broadest gauge of economic activity ...
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Obamas Budget Deficit Heroics »
Posted by: Shana4Liberty 4 months, 1 week ago in News
It has been widely reported today that President Obama plans to cut the budget deficit in half by 2013. On the surface, this sounds like ...
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U.S. economy shrank at an alarming rate »
Posted by: Pdlpublic 2 months ago in Business & Finance
U.S. GDP fell at an annualized rate of 6.1% in the first quarter of this year according to data released on Wednesday April ...
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US economy better than expected »
Posted by: HealthyLivingGal 1 week ago in Business & Finance
The US economy shrank at an annualised rate of 5.5% in the first three months of 2009, better than previously thought, government figures show.
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Durable Goods Data | The Big Picture »
Posted by: tehranchik 4 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
January Durable Goods fell a greater than expected 5.2% (consensus was -2.5%) but ex transports, the drop of 2.5% wasn’t that ...
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UK cannot take Iceland's soft option »
Posted by: engineer 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Britain has foreign reserves of under $61bn dollars (£ 43.7bn), less than
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Malaysia or Thailand. The foreign liabilities of the UK banks are $4.4 ...Read (89) | Share | Discuss (0) | Read Full Story at telegraph.co.uk
