Public gives mixed marks to Bernanke
Roughly four-in-ten Americans expressed a favorable view of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in September.
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Roughly four-in-ten Americans expressed a favorable view of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in September.
While the stock market has been surging, there is a big gap who who benefits that has implications for the strength of the economic recovery.
More than 20 million tweets were posted on Twitter in a five day period covering the approach and aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
Americans have a pretty good sense of how well different aspects of the economy have — and haven’t — recovered from the Great Recession.
Until the housing market and home equity levels fully recover, the typical American household still has a ways to go.
Which federal data sources are, aren’t and may be affected by the government shutdown.
As President Obama prepares to make a “major” speech on the economy today, our past reports describe the challenges the middle class has faced in the past decades.
With the stock market hitting new highs and home prices marking their strongest gains since before the bubble burst, it’s starting to feel like a real economic recovery. But which is the better investment over time? That depends largely on your definition of “long term.” As the accompanying charts show, since the formal end of the […]
Growing evidence that the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad may have used chemical weapons against its own people has led to calls for the Obama administration to intervene in the Syrian civil war. In August 2012, President Barack Obama said: “We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on […]
About a third of Twitter postings about Hurricane Sandy contained oooo-related news and information.
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