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Corporate Profits Soar to Record Levels, but Little Evidence of Trickle Down Yet

(Nov. 23) -- When it comes to the nation's economy, is the glass half full or half empty? On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Commerce revised its figures for how fast the nation's economy grew in the third quarter. GDP measured 2.5 percent, up 0.3 percentage points from the original estimates of 2.2 percent. A range of...

At $1,400 an Ounce, Gold Prices Reach All-Time High

(Nov. 8) -- He has been widely criticized for his role as a pitchman for Goldline, but Glenn Beck did have one thing right about gold: The precious metal is on the rise. Gold reached an all-time high of $1,410.30 an ounce today, after setting the record at $1,409.40 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York...

Stocks Hit Highest Level Since Lehman Bros. Bankruptcy

(Nov. 4) -- Are the bulls back? The Dow Jones industrial average today rose to its highest level since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for bankruptcy in 2008, at the height of the U.S. financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal reports. U.S. stocks rose by 219 points, or 2 percent of total volume, in trading at the...

The Fed Hopes the Economy Will Start Healing Itself

(Sept. 21) -- With the economy growing at a painfully slow pace, the Federal Reserve pledged to take new steps "if needed" but took none today -- a sign the nation's financial stewards may want to give the dawdling economy more time to build momentum on its own. The policy-making Federal Open Market Committee said the...

Official: Obama to Back More Business Tax Breaks

WASHINGTON (Sept. 7) -- President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of showing action on the economy ahead of the November...

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06/17/11 Economic stimulus Source: News Herald - Panama City FL The Bay County Tourist Development Council should seize opportunities to make two important investments in the future of local tourism.
04/12/11 Economic Stimulus Source: American Drycleaner President Barack Obama's $819 billion economic-stimulus legislation passed in a surprisingly partisan vote in the House, where Republicans united in opposition with 11 conservative Democrats.
02/22/11 Economic Stimulus Source: School Me! As states work to implement education reforms as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, their progress may be halted or slowed in 2012 because of lingering financial difficulties, according to a new report by the Center on Education Policy ...
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