Articles filed under Economy
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Will consumers spend as economy weakness spreads?Oct 06, 2019 6:09 am - The economy is showing growing signs of weakening on multiple fronts, with manufacturing already in decline and new questions about whether consumers will continue to se...
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Hunger on campus: How college students can get helpOct 06, 2019 6:00 am - When college students paying their own way have a financial hiccup, they have to make hard choices about how to spend their limited funds — and some turn to their food b...
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2020 Democrats plan to tax the rich — including themselvesOct 06, 2019 6:00 am - The leading Democratic presidential candidates are promising to pay for their policy visions with new taxes on the wealthy — and some of the 2020 contenders would have t...
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Make under $35,500 a year? You may be owed mandatory overtime pay soonSep 29, 2019 6:10 am - Workers making less than $35,500 are now entitled to mandatory overtime pay from their employers, under new rules announced by the Department of Labor Tuesday. The new r...
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When companies improve their diversity, stock prices jumpSep 29, 2019 6:00 am - In 2014, the big U.S. tech companies did something surprising: They told the world how few women they employed. Men comprised 70% of Google's workforce; Facebook, Apple,...
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One way to slow climate change: Pay CEOs to protect the planetSep 22, 2019 6:23 am - The executives tasked with introducing Seventh Generation's line of eco-friendly laundry detergents, dish soaps and cleaners to Southeast Asia faced a dilemma earlier th...
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Analysis: Fed chair Powell offers opaque message to investors - and they like itSep 22, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has left everyone guessing about what the central bank will do next. And that's exactly what investors wanted. The Fed m...
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America's billionaire playgrounds: rockets, ranches and riversSep 22, 2019 6:00 am - Gordy & Sons Outfitters in Houston stocks almost anything an outdoors enthusiast could want, from a $1,550 knife inlaid with 45,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk fossil t...
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Analysis: Trump is demanding low or even zero interest rates. There's a real downside.Sep 15, 2019 6:11 am - People talk about how even the darkest clouds can have silver linings. Today, let's talk about the inverse of that - how even the brightest, most glittery silver linings...
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Analysis: U.S. recession indicators haven't made up their mindsSep 15, 2019 6:10 am - Investors are abuzz over the risk of a looming U.S. recession, yet economic indicators are giving mixed signals at worst that the record-long expansion will end soon. Ye...