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In 3rd Quarter, U.S. economy grew "for the first time in a year"

America Blog  Oct 29 09

Chris will have a better sense of what this really means, but it looks like we're getting some good economic news for a change: For the first time in a year, the United States economy grew, the Commerce Department said on Thursday.
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The Unplanned Stimulus

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Oct 21 09

Buttonwood reminds us that much of the deficit is due to falling revenues and not just stimulus spending: The economic news is coming so thick and fast at the moment that it is easy to miss some of the more.
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The Rise in Men's Underwear Exciting

Undies Drawer  Aug 19 09

Late last week, NPD Group, Inc., a market-research firm, reported that there was good news on the economic front.
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Definitely green shoots: Unemployment dropped, yes dropped. Job losses "far less than expected"

America Blog  Aug 07 09

This is good economic news (when was the last time we were able to write that?): U.S. employers cut 247,000 jobs in July, far less than expected and the least in any month since last August, according to a government report on Friday that provided the clearest evidence yet that the economy was turning around.
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Reality Check

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Jul 14 09

by Patrick Appel Mark Blumenthal crunches the numbers and finds that Obama sinks or swims with the economy's fortunes: The apparent relationship between economic news and the president's approval rating is not surprising.
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Does MSM coverage of economy affect our perception of its health?

Gay Patriot  Jul 03 09

Yesterday, Glenn linked a comment James Taranto made in his Best of the Web column for the on-line edition of the Wall Street Journal: Have you noticed a change in the economic news over the past year or so? It’s a deliberately ambiguous question: The actual news has gotten worse, but the coverage of it has [.
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Sometimes, Even Hookers Get the Blues

Queercents  Jun 26 09

Here’s a dreary piece of economic news: sex workers, who are normally recession proof, are feeling the pinch of the economic decline.
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Credit card defaults hit new high

America Blog  Jun 15 09

Not the most encouraging economic news in a still troubled industry. It's highly likely this problem will continue to remain high, especially as unemployment increases later this year.
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Bear Rising

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Jun 11 09

Krugman eats his green shoots: "Is it just me, or has the economic news started to darken again?" Free Exchange counters: The first and most obvious point to make is that news can surprise on the downside while still trending.
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Rough day for economic news

America Blog  Jun 03 09

Considering the positive movement in the market on OK news, the downside today could have been much worse, though there has been a good amount of selling today.
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