Mike Mandel has four nominees for his “Economic Statistics of the Decade” award, including home prices , Chinese growth, and global trade. How about US household borrowing?
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The stock market has come roaring back. The government and some CEOs are now saying that the worst of the crisis is over. But where does the economy stand, really?
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A total of 1 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2008. In addition to the sheer size - there are some surprising facts about who these Americans are.
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US personal savings rate has been on a dramatic decline since the mid 1980’s, reaching decade-low levels in recent years. The open question is: How will this chart look like over the next decade?
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If most of us were farmers and laborers 150 years ago, when and how quickly did the change happen? Which occupations died, and which ones flourished? Which ones are still growing?
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The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the US and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination
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India is in many ways a nation of paradoxes and vastly different from the US. It is simultaneously one of the worlds fastest growing economies and the nation with the largest concentration of people living below the pov
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Florida lost 58,000 residents this year - the first net outflow in 63 years. Reason? There are many: A huge rise in property taxes, hurricane-insurance premiums and electricity rates is squeezing them out.
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