Washington now spends that much more than it did a mere three years ago. But trying to figure out what we’re getting for all that extra money is no simple matter. A lot of slicing and dicing does yield some answers — none of w…
Goldman Sachs drew some undeserved ire when it recently pointed to proposed cuts in federal spending as a key near-term risk. While the proposed cuts are modest, they could still undermine the rebound at a critical time.
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If a compromise by definition is a deal that pleases no one, then the tax deal that cleared Congress Thursday was a rousing success: Conservatives and liberals both dislike it, but those who voted for it agreed that the alterna…
If a compromise by definition is a deal that pleases no one, then the tax deal that cleared Congress Thursday was a rousing success: Conservatives and liberals both dislike it, but those who voted for it agreed that the alterna…
Initial jobless claims unexpectedly fell last week.
Claims fell 3,000 to 420,000 in the week ending Dec. 11, the Department of Labor said. The revised figure for the previous week was 423,000.
A survey of economists by The Wall Street Journal pre…