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Consumer sentiment climbed last week to the highest level in more than five years and claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly dropped, indicating the U.S. economic expansion is making progress.
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The number of people in the U.S. who process credit transactions is rebounding, boosted by an increase in lending to governments, businesses and consumers.
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The unemployment rate will fall to 8 percent by the end of next year as more baby boomers retire each month, said Dean Maki, chief U.S. economist at Barclays Capital in New York.
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When Ben S. Bernanke asserted last month that the Federal Reserve doesn’t ever have to sell assets, he raised questions about how the central bank can withdraw its record monetary stimulus without stoking inflation.
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Consumers and businesses are treating higher payroll taxes and federal spending cuts as just a speed bump for a U.S. economy poised to accelerate later this year.
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The strength of the U.S. recovery depends on whether Barclays Capital Inc. economist Dean Maki or Decision Economics Inc.’s Allen Sinai is right about business investment translating into hiring.
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In 1980, the U.S. economy was in the middle of a severe downturn, and jobs weren’t easy to find. So Lou Crandall , after earning a bachelor’s degree with a focus on economics from Cornell University, scattered resumes far and wide. One went to an employment agency looking for bilingual workers. Crandall had spent five years of his boyhood in Italy, where his father taught in an American school, and was fluent in Italian, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.
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The U.S. labor market will strengthen this year, said Dean Maki , chief U.S. economist at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York.
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American factories expanded in February at the fastest pace in almost two years, spurred by a jump in orders that is helping propel an economy about to be tested by federal government cutbacks.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke says the end of the central bank’s bond buying won’t constitute a move toward tighter policy. He may have a tough time convincing stock and bond investors that’s true.
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