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The prices of the most expensive homes in Miami are increasing at a faster pace than the rest of the market there.
Movin’ On Up in Seattle, Miami
Trying to buy a piece of the pie in Miami or Seattle is becoming more expensive at a faster pace than the rest of the market. The prices of the most expensive homes in Seattle and Miami are increasing at a...
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Job seekers reflected in a mirror during a fair sponsored by National Career Fairs in San Diego.
Jobless Race to 8% and Under: Gallup Seeing Break in Clouds?
Since January 1948, The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has collected monthly unemployment data — collecting 776 months of data. The unemployment rate has stood at 8 percent or higher in three periods: for 12 months in 1975, for 27...
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A home for sale in Miami.
Bloomberg by the Numbers: $911
That’s the change in the cost of a monthly mortgage payment for a hypothetical $500,000 30-year fixed jumbo mortgage. Five years ago the interest rate for a 30-year fixed jumbo mortgage was 7.13% which would have a monthly payment of...
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Yuan notes in Beijing.
Investment in U.S.: $4 Trillion Edge
For all the campaign talk of taking U.S. money — and jobs — overseas, consider this data: The value of foreign investments in the United States at the end of 2011 continued to exceed the value of U.S. investments abroad....
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Asleep at the Honolulu International Airport.
Sleeping Away the Dark Economy. Literally.
Americans are weathering the slow economy by catching up on their sleep. The 2011 American Time Use Survey found that Americans spent more time sleeping last year then in any since 2003, when the survey began. The survey is based...
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The beach in Belmar, New Jersey.
Vacation. It’s the New Black.
Americans have had enough personal austerity and are going on vacation. In a sign of confidence in personal finances, 2,666,000 million people missed work by taking a vacation in April, according to the data from the Current Population Survey conducted by the...
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