If you listen to the interpretation of the health of the U.S. economy described by each of the major party nominees for President you would hear two diverging representations of…
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consumer spending
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Americans still aren’t saving enough and are carrying too much credit card debt. Yet the Great Recession, still less than a decade in our past, made permanent changes in our…
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Americans are unhappy and their biggest complaints are about the economy. That’s peculiar considering there is so much economic good news out there. Gas prices are at record lows that…
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The bull market has been going strong for the last six years but, like any engine that’s running red hot, at some point something is going to break. We may…
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It may be a bit cheeky to point at a company with $500 billion in annual sales and, by some measures, still the biggest company in America and ask the…
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The numbers don’t lie, Americans are addicted to debt. The numbers available as of July 2014 paint an alarming picture of a populace drunk on borrowing and on a collision…
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The U.S. economy once again crushed the naysayers in Q2 2014, soundly blowing away even my tepidly optimistic analysis. Earnings for the 490 companies comprising the S&P 500 that have…