This is chaos.
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The Economy in Context: July 2020
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The Economy in Context: April 2020
The cause of this economic fiasco is the fault of the incompetence of this administration.
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The Economy in Context: January 2020
...[T]he state of the economy remains very much in question, particularly where the job creation market is concerned.
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The Economy in Context: October 2019
One thing is for sure, this isn't the rapid growth economy we were sold.
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The Economy in Context: September 2019
By every objective measure, the economy has been at best mediocre, and, when compared to the performance of the economy since Reagan, this economy has been flaccid, especially in 2019.
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The Economy in Context: July 2019
This economy isn't "better", and it sure as Hell isn't "great".
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The Economy in Context: May 2019
Is this a healthy economy?
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The Economy in Context: February 2019
Trade talks with China remain a wild card that can stave off an economic slowdown in 2019, or, if things go south in trade negotiations, take the economy of both countries down with it.
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The Economy in Context: January 2019
As rosy as the economic data seems, there's still some pretty serious questions hanging over this economy.
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The Economy in Context: December 2018
[T]he president's misbegotten policies are presently the biggest factors in the market today.
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The Economy in Context: November 2018
Americans should remain skeptical of the rosy picture painted by the latest jobs report, because fundamental problems in the economy remain.
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The Economy in Context: October 2018
The current administration's economy has only outperformed the average performance of the previous administration (post recession) eight months out of the last twenty-one months, or roughly one-third of the time.
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The Economy in Context: August 2018
Despite numerous deregulation victories and his incessant bragging in 2016, Trump's economy has created more jobs than Obama's second term (post recession) economy only 7 out of the last 20 months.
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The Economy In Context: July 2018
At 157,000 net jobs created, the preliminary numbers in the July Jobs Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in well below the 190,000 jobs expected by market watchers, and well below the average established during Obama's second term.
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The Economics Quarterly: July 2018
While the quarterly GDP growth rate hasn't been below 2.0% since the first quarter of 2017, it also hasn't been above 5.0% since the second quarter of 2014, and it's a long way from the 7.0% rate in the third quarter of 2003.
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The Economy in Context: May Jobs Report
It seems to me that it's hard for Trump to be making America "great" again, if his economy is under-performing Obama's economy.
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Economy In Context: The March 2018 Jobs Numbers
This simply isn't good news for the Trump economy.
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The Economy in Context
[D]espite the bump in the stock market from the positive preliminary jobs numbers, it's important to keep in mind the greater perspective.
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DOW Shudders as Fed Chair Empties
There is no arguing that the drop on Friday was anything other than a rout, and it remains to be seen if the weekend will be long enough to cool the white hot fears of inflation that drove the market stampede in the first place.
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The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q4
By all objective measures, the economy generated fewer jobs in 2017 than the previous 3 years. This isn't political punditry, it's merely a statement of fact.
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The Economics Quarterly: 2017Q3
With the end of easy money, and the Federal Reserve looking to balance their books, there may be a tightening of capital in the very near future as that $4.5 trillion tab gets cleared.
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