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2012 Presidential Election: A Look Back at Where the Economy Was Four Years AgoBrothers had declared bankruptcy. It was the largest in U.S. history. A couple of months later, in December 2008, the National Bureau of Economics Research's ( NBER ) Business Cycle Dating Committee announced that the recession began one year earlier . The committee announced in September
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Popular Kids Paid More As Adults, Study Finds
In earning power, kings rule. That's the conclusion of four scholars writing under the aegis of National Bureau of Economic Research (the entity that decides, officially, when recessions start and end). Their paper, 'Popularity
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The Walmart Effect on Home Prices: Economists Say Home Prices Have Increased Near Storesin 27 countries, according to the company website. The study, published as a working paper with the National Bureau of Economic Research in May, is called "When Walmart Comes to Town: Always Low Housing Prices? Always?" It looked at
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Ask Matt: Do cheap stocks make more money for investors?
prediction tool by itself is pretty mixed. One analysis done by John Campbell and Robert Shiller for the National Bureau of Economic Research indicated that neither the P-E ratio nor the dividend-price ratio were effective in predicting future
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Some companies have emerged stronger after the recession
the most since the recession started. The time frame to consider starts on December 2007, which the National Bureau of Economic Research says was the start of the recession . The first full year of earnings after the recession was 2008. So to do your
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Tax refunds being used to pay for bankruptcy filings
says a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research . The NBER research confirms what bankruptcy afford to pay the fees, the NBER study says. "If people Louis and an author of the NBER study. "The people who
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Hemlines are plunging, is economy next?
Economics. They examine monthly data on hemlines from 1921 to 2009, and evaluate these against the National Bureau of Economic Research chronology of the economic cycle. Franses and Baardwijk couldn't find any evidence that hemlines predict
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Economy: The Man-cession and the He-covery
finally seem to be turning around for the dudes. "Since the economic recovery began, as defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research to be June 2009, private-sector employers have hired 503,000 men," Boushey said in March 2011
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Health Headlines: Eating Speed, Depression and Exercise
in Arizona, California, Florida and New Jersey.” The economists found in a paper published in the National Bureau of Economic Research that “an increase of 100 foreclosures corresponded to a 7.2% rise in emergency room visits and hospitalizations
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Stock Market History: the 10 Worst DaysDropped 679.95 points After a year of profuse job loss, stagnant wages and declining production, the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared that the United States was in a recession and was not expected to grow again for
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Is the economy headed for a double-dip recession?
2000 and 2001. The time period between the early-1980s recessions was 12 months, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research , which tracks recessions. Since the most recent recession officially ended more than two years ago
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Unemployment Falls: Recession Fears Ease After Jobs Reportcontract workers." There are more than 25 million out-of-work Americans more than two years after the National Bureau of Economic Research 's assessment that the recession is over. More than 44 percent, or 6.3 million, of unemployed Americans
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Romney's Economic Exaggerations
one simple reason: The data only exist for post-World War II America. From 1857 until 1938, the National Bureau of Economic Research counted 21 recessions — including the Great Depression , which started in 1929, and the Panic of 1873
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The Family Dinner ChallengeI didn't Whittier family every night if you do you are apparently in the minority according to the National Bureau of Economic Research the number of American families who eat dinner together every night fell 44% in 1977. Just 26% in
if you do you are apparently in the minority according to the National Bureau of Economic Research the number of American families who eat dinner together every night fell 44% in 1977. Just 26% in 1998. -
Accommodating Obese PatientsAmerica's obesity epidemic a study released last month by the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research . obesity related medical expense cost the United States a 168. Billion dollars a year nearly 17%. Of total medical costs
America's obesity epidemic a study released last month by the nonprofit National Bureau of Economic Research . -- obesity related medical expense cost the United States a 168. Billion dollars a year nearly 17%. Of total medical costs. Where -
Webcast: Want a Job With Obama?, Online College Fair, China's Forbidden Cityme on the set here is it up to them to declare a formal recession. For the US we usually rely on the National Bureau of Economic Research they are at it division it's a group of economists who come together. And they look at all sorts of
For the US we usually rely on the National Bureau of Economic Research they are at it division -- it's a group of economists who come together. And they look at all sorts of statistics -
Experts Confirm Global RecessionOn the set here is it up to them to declare formal recession now for the US we usually rely on the National Bureau of Economic Research they are at. It division there it's a group of economists who come together. And they look at all
declare formal recession now for the US we usually rely on the National Bureau of Economic Research they are at. It division there it's a group of economists who come together. And they look at all sorts of statistics -
Obama Unveils Key Economic Playersthe great depression and robust economic expansion the fault. Since 2003 she's been director of the National Bureau of Economic Research monetary economics program. She's also a member of the bureau's business cycle. Dating committee
economic expansion the fault. Since 2003 she's been -- director of the National Bureau of Economic Research monetary economics program. She's also a member of the bureau's business cycle. Dating committee the body charged with -- officially determining whether -
Bernanke: 'A Recession is Possible'likely than it was a few months ago. Recession is possible but a recession is a technical term the the National Bureau of Economic Research depending on data which will be available. Quite a while from now. So I I'm not yet ready to say
is possible but a recession is a technical term -- the the National Bureau of Economic Research depending on data which will be available. Quite a while from now. So I I'm not yet ready to say whether or
