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Gas prices keep inflation tame, push confidence to four-year high
Falling energy and gas prices helped keep inflation in check last month and also pushed consumer confidence to a four-year high, according to two reports Friday. The good news helped mitigate a stock market slump earlier in the day after investors...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Prices, Consumers, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Commodity Markets
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Gasoline prices keep inflation tame, push confidence to 4-year high
Falling energy and gasoline prices helped keep inflation in check last month and also pushed consumer confidence to a four-year high, according to two reports. An index of prices paid by factories, farms and other producers fell 0.2% in April from the...Tags: Federal Reserve, Prices, Petroleum Industry, Consumers, Market and Exchange
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Krugman versus Bernanke
WASHINGTON -- It's being called the "battle of the beards" -- Paul Krugman versus Ben Bernanke. Both are eminent (and bearded) economists: Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board; Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and a prominent New York Times...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Prices, Sales, Financial Markets, Nobel Prize Awards
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The disunited states of Europe
France, Greece and other countries face a problem with which Americans have gotten somewhat acquainted: restoring fiscal balance at a time when hard times and demographic factors, as well as overambitious government, are causing a surge in spending. But...Tags: Europe, Ben Bernanke, France, Money and Monetary Policy, Germany
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S.F. Fed: Skills mismatch, joblessness link overblown
High U.S. unemployment does not signal a widening gap between employer needs and worker skills, according to research published Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, suggesting the U.S. central bank's super-easy monetary policy poses little...
Tags: Science and Technology, Federal Reserve, Employment, Economy, Business and Finance, Central Bank
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China's inflation eases in April, another sign of a slowing economy
BEIJING — Inflation in China moderated last month in another sign that the world's second-largest economy is cooling. Consumer prices grew 3.4% from a year earlier, China's National Bureau of Statistics said Friday. That's down from 3.6% year-over-...Tags: Beijing (China), China
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China's moderating inflation indicates economy might be cooling
BEIJING – Inflation in China moderated last month in another sign that the world’s second-largest economy is cooling. Consumer prices grew 3.4% from a year earlier, China’s National Bureau of Statistics said Friday. That's down from 3....
Tags: Prices, Petroleum Industry, Beijing (China), Money and Monetary Policy, China
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Domestic airfares set record high in 2011
Pushed by higher fuel costs, the nation's airlines increased domestic airfares to record levels in 2011, and ticket prices are going up again this year. The average domestic airfare last year was $364, an 8.3% increase over the average of $336 in 2010,...
Tags: Transportation, Amusement and Theme Parks, Air Transportation Industry, Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), Trips and Vacations
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New savings bonds earning a rate of 2.2 percent
The Bureau of Public Debt announced the new rates on savings bonds. The Series I Bonds purchased today through October of this year will have an annualized rate of 2.2 percent for the first six months of purchase. That compares with an annualized rate of... -
A Misinformed Senate Fears A Minimal Minimum Wage Hike
The Hartford CourantA rise in the minimum wage might hurt Sara Tewolde, a New Haven mother from Ethiopia who spent years in refugee camps after her husband was killed in 1999, the year her younger son was born. That's because Tewolde, 42, hasn't been able to find a job...Tags: Elections, Quassy Amusement Park, Democratic Party, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Interior Policy
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Anthony W. Orlando: Answer to rising student loan debt is to create jobs
As Congress tries to agree on a way to keep interest rates on student loans from rising, many Americans are questioning the value of an increasingly expensive college degree. We're talking about serious costs. Even in-state tuition at public colleges,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Unemployment, Students, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning
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Conflicting concerns for older investors: Safety, inflation, growth
For now, many aging baby boomers still are in the wealth-accumulation phase of life.
Here's how some Wall Street pros see boomers focusing their portfolios in the next few years:
Safety first: Millions of investors have favored high-quality bonds over...Tags: Federal Reserve, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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