Posts Tagged ‘interest rates’

Unemployment, Austerity, Stimulus


[N.B.:  First three items by our fabulous summer intern Elizabeth Murphy, who also chose this post's Possibly Irrelevant Image. Sorry for the delay posting these!] (1) The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the July unemployment numbers last Friday (Aug.6) and they do not look pretty. Unemployment remains exactly where it was at the end of ...Read more.

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