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Economy
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Oil prices - what's holding it up?
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The risk of any abrupt consumer retrenchment is low.
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Business investment is emerging.
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Outcome seems obvious for George W. Bush.
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Because jobs in the homebuilding industry have fallen flaws in the official job count now overstate reality.
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Are jobs being “exported” to foreign countries as businesses struggle to cut costs?
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Should prove to be temporary.
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Employment is poised to rise.
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Monetary policy is now said to be “data dependant”.
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One should look to the labor market – not commodities – when judging inflation prospects.
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Inflation's nadir is almost a year behind us.
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The high rate of saving by businesses has become a concern to many economic observers.
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A look at the U.S. economy since the fall of Baghdad.
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Why has employment gains been puny?
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Comparisons to the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s...
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Surely this is a problem, right?
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The answer depends on one's outlook.
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Uncertainty only hurts the economy.
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The U.S. dollar decline that began five years ago has recently picked-up pace.
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America's aversion to thrift.
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It was never designed as a retirement program.
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Downside risks to contend with.
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The need to reverse course.
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