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| | Asia Times Online :: Global Economy |
 | | The US fiscal and trade deficits are skyrocketing and wage compensation as a share of national income has hit a 40-year low. | | | Adding to the US dollar's woes, no less than Alan Greenspan now warns that the party may be over for the greenback as foreign investors tire of paying for the United States' uncontrollable fiscal deficit and want to shift to other currencies at some point. | | | Post-Katrina, the US economy is conducting a cliff-walk, dependent on even stronger government stimuli to hold up consumer spending. |
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| | US capitalism is burdened with huge overcapacity and mountains of debt, and the anaemic state of the world economy offers no easy way out. | | | The slight growth in the economy was entirely due to wholesalers maintaining their inventory levels after more than a year of cutting their stockpiles. | | | A surge in oil prices in the event of a US strike against Iraq, together with extra war expenditure (when the Federal budget is moving sharply into deficit, mainly because of Bush’s tax cuts to the rich and generally declining revenues) would be additional negative economic forces. |
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| | While fiscal spending is good for the economy, it is going to have a major negative impact on future deficits and on the value of the dollar. | | | A new REIT for us is American Financial Realty Trust (ticker: AFR), which buys bank real estate, helping to reduce the overhead of banks and improve their balance sheets. | | | US sovereign bonds have also underperformed most of their global counterparts; year-to-date returns of 1.7% on 10-year Treasuries have fallen far short of above 9% returns for German bunds and emerging market debt. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports US 'endangering world economy' |
| | The US is facing a record-breaking budget deficit, expected to exceed $400bn (£222bn) this year and the IMF urged Washington to get its house in order by raising taxes and cutting spending. | | | Debt is expected to reach 40% of the US economy, which the report described as "an unprecedented level of external debt for a large industrial country" that would push up global interest rates and slow growth. | | | The International Monetary Fund last night warned that the gaping US budget deficit, ballooning trade imbalance and falling dollar were posing a serious threat to the health of the global economy. |
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| | EH.Net Encyclopedia: US Economy in the 1920s |
| | More countries' economies began to decline in 1929, including the United States, and by 1930 a depression was in force for almost all of the world's market economies. | | | Contrary to simple macroeconomic models that argue a federal government budget surplus must be contractionary and tend to stop an economy from reaching full employment, the American economy operated at full-employment or close to it throughout the twenties and saw significant economic growth. | | | In this case, the surpluses were not contractionary because the dollars were circulated back into the economy through the purchase of outstanding federal debt rather than pulled out as currency and held in a vault somewhere. |
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| | World economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The US economy continued its remarkable sustained prosperity, growing at 4.1% in 1999, and accounted for 21% of GWP. | | | The terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001 accentuate a further growing risk to global prosperity, illustrated, for example, by the reallocation of resources away from investment to anti-terrorist programs. | | | The euro as the common currency of much of Western Europe in January 1999, while paving the way for an integrated economic powerhouse, poses economic risks because of varying levels of income and cultural and political differences among the participating nations. |
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| | [A-List] US economy: energy crisis |
| | US natural gas futures prices point to higher prices for almost the next two years, darkening the clouds over the world's largest economy that is already faced with the threat of deflation, widening deficits and rising unemployment. | | | Volatility of natural gas may scorch a US recovery By Kevin Morrison Financial Times; Jun 13, 2003 If futures prices are any indication, then the US economy is in for another bruising. | | | The latest weekly inventory report by the US government's energy watchdog, the Energy Information Administration, shows US natural gas storage at almost three-quarters of the five-year average for this time of year. |
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| | Asia Times - The IMF and the US economy |
| | The US imported $121.4 billion in goods from Japan in 2002, $125.2 billion from China, $33.6 billion from South Korea, $32.2 billion from Taiwan and $9.6 billion from Hong Kong. | | | As US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan ordered a series of rate cuts that drove interest rates to their lowest levels since World War II, millions of homeowners, motivated by rising house prices and plummeting interest rates, refinanced their homes, took the money out and have been spending it on consumer goods. | | | After the budget deficit, probably the most pressing of these questions concerns the possibility that a US housing bubble, if there is one, might pop with an explosion equal to the one that collapsed world equity prices. |
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| | WSWS : News & Analysis : North America -- US Economy |
| | US faces record budget deficits, new spending cuts | | | US budget deficit to hit half a trillion dollars | | | US tax agency gives big business a free ride--corporate audits drop |
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| | FT.com / World / US |
| | The Bush administration's highest economic priority for its remaining three years is to control the growth of federal spending and bring down the US budget deficit, John Snow, US Treasury secretary, said. | | | Faced with energy companies reaping billions of dollars in profits while consumers struggle to pay high heating bills and petrol costs, the US and UK are taking different views on whether to pass a tax on windfall profits. | | | Snow sets sights on cutting US budget deficit |
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| | US foreign economy |
| | The U.S. is one of the most open economies in the world and generally places few restrictions on foreign investment. | | | These trade deficits pose a serious threat to U.S. economic stability, and at this perilous point in U.S. history, even devout believers in free trade owe it to the nation to look closely at this piling on of foreign debt. | | | OECD countries, however, broadly share U.S. values in these areas and the OECD has a long tradition of dealing with environmental and labor concerns. |
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| | BBC NEWS Business US economy 'recovering' |
| | Hopes of a full recovery in the US economy were also dampened last week with the Federal Reserve's Beige Book saying consumer spending and the service sector in general remain lacklustre. | | | The measure of consumer confidence was down to 87.2 in June from 92.1 in May, despite analysts' expectations of a moderate increase. | | | The Conference Board index - a key measure of leading US economic indicators - rose 1% in May. |
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| | Asia Times - Asia's most knowledgable news source |
| | IMF economists also cautioned that one should add to the short term a US$500 billion deficit that the US administration is running, a further US$47 trillion in unfunded long-term commitments for US Social Security and the federally funded Medicare health program for the elderly and indigent. | | | So its double act with the US - both the seller of consumer goods on a huge scale and the financer for US' purchase makes it even more important. | | | And the IMF pointed out that there were additional liabilities from cash-strapped local governments, forced to borrow to compensate for federal cutbacks. |
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| | How the War Machine is Driving the US Economy |
| | The war has been a large part of the justification for the Bush administration to run ever-widening budget deficits, and those deficits, predicated largely on military spending, have in turn pumped money into the economy and provided the stimulus that low interest rates and tax cuts, on their own, could never achieve. | | | The corollary of the Reagan military boom was a sharp cutback in social spending, something that was not reversed under Bill Clinton and is now back on the agenda with George Bush. | | | Military expenditure is usually the least effective of short-run ways of spending money, because it doesn't build infrastructure that give you returns over time. |
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| | The US economy is the next 9/11 Dr. Marc Faber |
| | The problem, now, compared to previous recoveries in the US is that China in the manufacturing sector and that India for tradable services will continue to gain employment market share at the cost of US employment and also lead to a worsening of America's trade and current account deficit. | | | There are several reasons why it is likely that the US economy will weaken far more than is expected by the bullish Wall Street crowd, whose only interest is to get as many investors to invest in the stock market and then to churn the accounts in order to earn high commissions. | | | What we, therefore, find at the present time is that US inventories of new homes for sale are at a record because, in recent months, housing starts have been rising at a far higher rate than new home sales. |
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| | October 27, 2004: Foreign Policy Damaging U.S. Economy |
| | Europeans are in effect holding an economic referendum on U.S. foreign policy, voting with their pocketbooks. | | | While it is too early to see clearly all the long-term effects of U.S. foreign policy, some of the economic fallout is becoming disturbingly clear. | | | The time has come to fashion a new U.S. foreign policy, one that is responsive to the concerns and needs of the entire world. |
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| | The Big Picture: China on Course to Overtake US Economy |
| | Its currency, which is now pegged to the U.S. dollar, will join the yen and the euro as globally traded currencies and in doing so will erode the dollar's position as the world's default coin of choice. | | | China's military, which has enjoyed double-digit budget increases for much of the past 15 years, is likely to grow larger, bolstered by the huge economy. | | | Some economists argue that to sustain long-term growth, market economies require political freedom -- something the communist government shows scant intention of bestowing. |
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| | BBC NEWS Business US economic growth slips to 2.8% |
| | Growth in the US economy has slowed more than expected in the three months to June as consumer spending faltered. | | | The White House says that multi-trillion dollar tax cuts have revitalised the economy from the recession it experienced in 2001. | | | According to the commerce department, consumer spending grew 1.6% in the year to June, the slimmest increase in three years. |
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| | Index page for information about the economy and budget. | | | News Stories US consumer prices up 0.5% in... | | | Photos Audio/Video Advanced FULL COVERAGE: U.S. Economy Energy, Food Costs Boost Consumer Prices AP... |
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| | Namibia Internet Gateway - Namibian Directory and Search Engine - US economy remains solid - Greenspan |
| | For the moment, global competition and surplus US production capacity appeared to have tamed inflation, he sad. | | | In June, employers hired 112 000 extra workers, fewer than half the number expected, retail sales fell by a seasonally adjusted 1.1 percent, and US industry cut output 0.3 percent. | | | Greenspan presented congress with a semi-annual economic report by the Federal Reserve, which foresaw relatively solid economic prospects despite some recent signs of softness. |
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| | The_US_Economy - Forum is FULL!!! Use New Forum |
| | Sales at Wal-Mart's U.S. stores open at least a year increased 2.7 percent from a year earlier, at the low end of the range predicted by the world's largest retailer. | | | July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Initial jobless claims unexpectedly rose last week and the number of people continuing to collect benefits jumped to the highest in 20 years, suggesting payroll reductions will make it difficult for the U.S. economy to accelerate later this year. | | | Now includes ItsDeductible software to help you accurately value donated items (for a bigger deduction!). |
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| | Liberal Government - labour market reform |
| | US deficits and government spending - more fallacies | | | Because of the sheer size of its economy, a monetary-induced deficit by the United States distorts the pattern of international trade as well as disarranges internal investment | | | The Australian economy is not looking too good, regardless of what the Treasurer Mr Costello thinks |
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| | US Economy |
| | What is commonly known as the "U.S. dollar," represents a debt that is owed by the U.S. federal government, to the federal reserve bank. | | | Under the welfare reform act, many Americans are being put to work for private companies for no wages other than the cost of their food and shelter, both of which constitute the bare minimum requirements of survival. | | | The "federal reserve notes" that are in your wallet, and your bank account, aren't really money, but are actually only paper on a debt that can never be paid, not even by combining all the assets and labor of every American alive today. |
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| | Math + test = trouble for US economy csmonitor.com |
| | At the urging of US business groups, Congress expanded the number of H1-B visas - designed to let US companies hire technology-proficient workers from other countries - by some 20,000 in 2005. | | | The survey comes a week before another set of results of global math performance, which could also cast the US as faltering. | | | Special Offer: Subscribe to the Monitor and get 32 issues FREE! |
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| | Bloomberg.com: Economies |
| | Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Services, the biggest part of the U.S. economy, expanded more than expected in October, while a jump in worker productivity led to the first decline in labor costs in more than a year. | | | The Institute for Supply Management's measure of non- manufacturing businesses that make up 87 percent of the economy rose to 60 last month from 53.3, the biggest jump in three years. | | | The Fed's preferred inflation barometer, the personal consumption expenditures price index minus food and energy, rose 2 percent in September from a year earlier, the ceiling for price increases among central bankers, who have defined a price range. |
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| | LATEST NEWS US ECONOMY |
| | Reuters - The U.S. economy has weathered the blow from recent devastating hurricanes and still has good momentum, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday, though inflation risks are a worry. | | | FT.com - Rising oil prices and hurricane damage are likely to dent employment and production gains but the "economic fundamentals remain firm, and the U.S. economy appears to retain important forward momentum", Alan Greenspan said on Thursday in a generally upbeat assessment of the economy. | | | AP - With just three months left before he leaves office, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan raised a warning to Congress: The country could face "serious economic disruptions" if bloated budget deficits are not curbed. |
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| | Economic indicators for over 40 countries and real-time data and analysis for the global economy. | | | Internet Business News: The Industry Standard - News and analysis for the Internet Economy Newsletters :: RSS Feeds :: About Us :: Advertise. | | | US services sector speeds up, jobs left behind (AFP |
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| | Some Democrats propose windfall taxes, which would make companies spend their money or send it to the US Treasury. | | | High fuel costs and drought conditions are dealing a double blow. | | | How the Fed is run, and what it does |
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| | t r u t h o u t - Little Hope for Post-War Boom in US Economy |
| | The US economy seems to have all but stalled out in recent months, or perhaps even contracted, and a raft of gloomy data have economists worried a revival may be difficult even if the Iraq war ends swiftly. | | | Nervous that the war would hurt their sales, many businesses froze hiring and cut their investment budgets in the run-up to the US-led attack on Iraq, now in its third week. | | | Yet an increasingly bleak jobs picture might keep them wary of spending too freely, which in turn would deprive the economy of a strong engine for growth. |
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| | washingtonpost.com: U.S. Economy |
| | The Consumer Price Index measures the change in the prices consumers pay for goods and services. | | | U.S. Boosts Pressure on China to Float Currency | | | Finding Consensus On Global Economy: Finance Chiefs Agree on Need for Change |
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| | AAP General News (Australia): Fed: Sick US economy dangerous for Australia: Costello@ HighBeam Research |
| | MELBOURNE, Nov 28 AAP - The weak US economy posed a bigger risk to the Australian economy than the drought or the prospect of war, Treasurer Peter Costello said today. | | | Mr Costello said the drought and possible war would test the strength of the Australian economy. | | | "Worse than that, the possibility the US economy continuing in the sick way it's been for the last year, that would be the biggest risk to the world economic environment," |
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| | Outline of the U.S. Economy |
| | The Role of the Government in the Economy | | | It updates several previous editions that had been issued by the U.S. Information Agency beginning in 1981. | | | Sorry, you need a JavaScript capable browser to get the best from this page |
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| | Pravda.RU Titanics of US economy are sinking |
| | Regarding the amount of WorldCom assets, the company is twice as large than Enron, whose bankruptcy resulted in the US’s largest corporate scandal and negatively influenced the dynamics of American financial and exchange markets. | | | Falling indices at US financial markets will affect Russian market, expert believes | | | Pillars of the US economy that have been the symbol of America’s power for many years are currently collapsing like houses of cards. |
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| | g8.ca - US Economy |
| | NEW YORK - US stocks rose on Thursday, as Dow component Merck & Co. got a favorable verdict in a liability trial, while reports on labor productivity and the services sector boosted optimism about the economy's outlook. | | | ] Economic Report US heats up rates to cool inflation The United States Federal Reserve, still concerned about inflation in America's growing economy, has raised | | | US stocks: Shares rise on Merck, the economy |
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| | Elite Bankers Pulling Plug On US Economy & Currency |
| | Japan is unloading massive amounts of dollars, stocks, and US gov debt, as mentioned recently on this site's "Just The Facts" section. | | | Elite Bankers Pulling Plug On US Economy and Currency | | | He is warning investors to get out of U.S. stocks and real estate, and says to buy bonds, but not U.S. bonds. |
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| | omnihits.com - us economy |
| | Find us economy at one of the best sites the Internet has to offer! | | | View FREE full-text articles and FREE premium archive previews at HighBeam Research - Find, organize & share information from 1,000s of trusted business, trade, consumer & reference publications. | | | Find us economy and more at Lycos Search. |
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| | US economy - Answerbag FAQ |
| | Important: Answerbag cannot guarantee the accuracy of answers submitted by members, and we recommend that you use common sense when following any advice found here. | | | The economy of the United States, its workings, and factors that influence it | | | What city has the highest per capita income? |
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| | Consumer Spending Rises, Savings Rate Dips (AP) Katrina seen pumping up inflation (Reuters) Dollar slumps on threat of oil prices, Katrina destruction to US economy (AFP) | | | Economy Market News - Get the latest Economy market news and headlines from Forbes.com. | | | WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US economy created 169,000 jobs in August, the government said, indicating steady growth... |
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| | At a Glance Tables |
| | Alabama includes the following metropolitan areas for which an Economy At A Glance table is available: | | | Colorado includes the following metropolitan areas for which an Economy At A Glance table is available: | | | Iowa includes the following metropolitan areas for which an Economy At A Glance table is available: |
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| | Powered By Economic News, US Economy News - Forbes.com | | | U.S. indexes are delayed at least 15 minutes with the exception of Nasdaq, Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 which are 2 minutes delayed. |
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| | All items, U.S. city average, all urban consumers, 1982-84=100, 1-month percent change, seasonally adjusted |
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| | Economy.com - Economic Analysis, Consulting, Data, and Forecasts |
| | Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005, 2pm ET This special webeconference, led by Economist Tu Packard and accompanied by Economist Tanweer Akram, Senior Economist Thorsten Fischer and Economist Charmaine Buskas, will explore Hurricane Katrina's impact on the global economy. | | | Visit Economy.com's Dismal Scientist for complete analysis of Katrina's impacts. | | | Updated live from Australia, U.K. and U.S. Detailed outlooks and in-depth commentary |
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| | CNN/Money: Jobs & Economy |
| | President Bush's tax-reform panel is submitting two proposals Tuesday morning, and they could affect AMT, home mortgages and more. | | | Fed chief says economy has momentum, but 'uncertainty' surrounds inflation outlook. | | | Biggest drop in 23 years due to hurricanes |
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| | The Ultimate Field Guide to the U.S. Economy |
| | If you disagree with what we say, send us your comments and criticisms and we promise to post them in the Feedback section. | | | verybody who is affected by the U.S. economy should learn how to argue about its goods, bads, rights and wrongs. | | | This website, a collaborative effort of the Dancing Monkey Project and the Center for Popular Economics, is designed to develop economic literacy and encourage economic debate. |
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| | Fuel Economy |
| | Why is my fuel economy different from the EPA rating? | | | What is the impact of recent hurricanes on U.S. oil markets? | | | Why don't you have ratings for large pickup trucks and SUVs? |
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| | See also the discussion of assembling time series data before and after 1997. | | | Census Bureau Links: Home · Search · Subjects A-Z · FAQs · Data Tools · Catalog · Census 2000 &; Quality · Privacy Policy · Contact Us |
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