Rich Miller
U.S. workers may finally catch a break as wages look set...
WASHINGTON - America’s workers may be finally in line for a decent raise.
After five years in which annual wage increases have averaged around 2...
No-respect recovery may wind up becoming longest ever in U.S.
WASHINGTON - It may not seem like much of a recovery to most Americans, but the current economic expansion has many of the makings...
Growth seen rebounding with jobs after U.S. hits soft spot
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy looks set to come out of its soft patch just as the labor market entered one of its own.
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Fed seeing productivity slowing as breaking with economic trend
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and his colleagues are suffering through their own form of cognitive dissonance: revealing new concerns about...
Recession looms if Treasury uses tools to prevent a debt default
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Treasury has the means to avoid a debt default even if Congress fails to raise the government’s $16.7 trillion borrowing...
U.S. takes payroll-tax increase in stride to keep spending
WASHINGTON – Consumers and businesses are treating higher payroll taxes and federal spending cuts as just a speed bump for a U.S. economy poised...
Housing packs punch for U.S. growth in 2013 and beyond
WASHINGTON - The housing rebound is broadening to other parts of the U.S. economy and will likely lend impetus to growth through 2013 and...
Economy growing at fastest pace of ’11 in U.S. forecasts
WASHINGTON - The U.S. economy may end 2011 growing at its fastest clip in 18 months as analysts increase their forecasts for the fourth...
World dodges slump with China-U.S. buoy in Europe crisis
WASHINGTON - The global economy is showing signs of withstanding a European recession triggered by the debt debacle in Greece.
The U.S. unemployment rate fell...
Slowing U.S. growth starts to sow doubts among the optimists
WASHINGTON - A string of disappointing economic data capped by last week’s jobs report is prompting even some of the more optimistic economists to...
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