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Economy Watch: Employment Barely Growing Enough to Keep Up
The final monthly employment report of 2012, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, pointed to continuing tepid growth in U.S. employment.
Economy Watch: Shadow Residential Inventory Declining
CoreLogic said that the residential shadow inventory as of October 2012 fell to 2.3 million units, which it calculates represents a supply of seven months.
Economy Watch: Fiscal Cliff Bill Passes Congress
In an exceedingly rare flurry of activity on a federal holiday (namely New Year’s Day 2013), Congress acted to forestall the fiscal cliff.
Economy Watch: No Cliff Deal Over the Weekend
Congress came back after a short Christmas break, but as of Sunday night the solons hadn’t agreed to any plan of action to avoid the colorfully but not quite accurately named fiscal cliff.
‘Economy Watch’ Podcast with Dees Stribling: The Big Story for 2012
The housing recovery is the big story for 2012.
Economy Watch: New Home Sales Rise in November
The Census Bureau reported on Thursday that the rate of new home sales was an annualized rate of 377,000 units in November, up from 361,000 in October.
Economy Watch: Case-Shiller Home Price Indexes Jump
The U.S. home-price recovery seems to be a sustained one, if the latest S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are any indication.
Economy Watch: Personal Income, Savings Up
Even as the 2012 holiday shopping season was ending on Monday, at least one estimate said that consumers didn’t spend that much more this year than last year.
‘Economy Watch’ Podcast with Dees Stribling: At Least It’s Not the End of the World
No deal on the cliff, but it isn’t the end of the world.