There are indicators, and there are indicators. One of the leading indicators of consumer confidence, the Conference Board, reported today that confidence reached its lowest level in more than a year in January as renewed payroll taxes took a bigger...
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A shopper organizes his cash at a Best Buy Co. store in Peoria.
Economic Confidence: Gallup Survey Against Grain of Consumer Indices
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Mitt Romney
Romney, Still Getting to Know You
Mitt Romney has some work to do. For all that negative advertising crossing both ways in the presidential contest, most voters say there’s little left to learn about President Barack Obama and Republican rival Romney. Nine in 10 told the...
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President Barack Obama campaign buttons for sale during a campaign event in Oakland, California, on July 23, 2012.
Obama’s Upside-Down Approval
He started strong. President Barack Obama’s public job approval started at 69 percent in the first three days following his inauguration, according to the Gallup Poll. His disapproval rating, 14 percent, was negligible for a new president emerging from a...
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A job fair in New York City.
`Glum’ Global Outlook, Pew Finds
People aren’t in a good mood in many places. “The economic mood is exceedingly glum around the world,” Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, reports of a new global survey. Worldwide, just 27 percent of those surveyed say...
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Al Hunt
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Richard Rubin
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