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Opinion: One Cheer for the Unemployment Number

The sharp drop in the unemployment rate to 9 percent should be treated as good news. Any drop, after all, is welcome. But just how good this news is depends entirely on how low your expectations are for this economic recovery. After all, the unemployment rate has been at or above 9 percent for 21 months now -- a grim...

Study: Obese Americans Suffer 'Body Size Misperception'

(Oct. 21) -- For all the talk about a war on obesity, few battles are being won -- and researchers suspect it might have something to do with self-image and how those warned about their weight see themselves. In an evaluation of 2,056 people, all of them with body mass indexes that exceeded 30 -- the benchmark for obesity...

What Hindenburg Omen? Stocks Close at 4-Month High

(Sept. 20) -- Disaster averted? At least for now, some traders are breathing a sigh of relief. The stock market closed at a four-month high today following three straight weeks of gains, The Wall Street Journal reports. This just over a month after the first sighting of the Hindenburg Omen (HO) -- a doomsaying technical...

Why the End of Recession Doesn't Feel Like a Recovery

(Sept. 20) -- It's official: The recession ended in June of last year. The problem for the millions of Americans slammed by the worst economic trough since World War II is that it just doesn't feel that way. The official judge of American economic cycles said today that after crunching years of data it finds the economy...

Experts Say U.S. Recession Ended in June 2009

The National Bureau of Economic Research, the arbiter of when recessions begin and end, has reported that the Great Recession ended June 2009.

National Bureau of Economic Research News From the Web

05/11/12 'The strategy of austerity in Europe is an engine of... Source: FXStreet.com Professor of Economics and Political Science in the University of California, Berkeley. â¢
09/21/11 BBJ poll: 84 percent say we're in a recession Source: Boston Business Journal - Boston MA The U.S. economy and Europe's could slip into a second recession, next year, the International Monetary Fund warned yesterday.

Background on National Bureau of Economic Research

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." The NBER is well known for providing start and end dates for recessions in the United States.

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