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Seniors are still struggling to recover after the financial crisis
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The number of seniors filing for bankruptcy has nearly doubled since 2007 to a record high of 12 percent, part of it driven by the financial crisis; another part by mounting debt for things like medical care, mortgage loans and credit card bills.
Divided Decade: How the financial crisis changed jobs
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The work we do and the way we’re paid is different.
A history of U.S. recessions
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Dozens have happened since the country’s founding.
Federal Reserve chairs love to talk about their toolkit. But what’s in it?
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We take a look at the tools at the Fed's disposal when it comes to keeping the economy humming along.
Divided Decade: How the financial crisis changed politics
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Did saving the financial system break the political system?
Divided Decade: How the financial crisis changed housing
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Ten years ago the economy broke and changed the way we live.
Recent layoffs could be a sign of lessons from the Great Recession
Major company layoffs are not tied to economic worries necessarily.
What did America buy with the auto bailout, and was it worth it?
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About $80 billion helped save GM and Chrysler, but autoworkers and auto-dependent communities haven't fully recovered.
China and the emerging markets no longer key engine of global growth
What goes up must come down. In the case of the Chinese economy, what grows like an economic weed inevitably starts to slow down. Today we learned China grew by a mere 6.5 percent the latest quarter. The country’s lowest growth since the Great Recession. You might be tempted to blame that on China’s current […]
China and the emerging markets no longer key engine of global growth
What goes up must come down. In the case of the Chinese economy, what grows like an economic weed inevitably starts to slow down. Today we learned China grew by a mere 6.5 percent the latest quarter. The country’s lowest growth since the Great Recession. You might be tempted to blame that on China’s current […]