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Slowly But Surely, Obama’s Economic Medicine is Working

Washington Post

Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. President Obama has bounded back from his midterm shellacking with a still more determined effort to convince the American people that he is on top of the unemployment problem.

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The “Great Man” Theory of Business

Financial Times

Historians have not documented whether Charles de Gaulle or Georges Clemenceau first pronounced that “graveyards are full of indispensable men”. While that must be so, some chief executives come close to severely testing that aphorism.

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Green Shoots Are Piercing Through the Gloom

Financial Times

For most Americans, the main lesson of last month’s jobs report was an unchanged unemployment rate of 9.6 per cent, another ugly statistic in a steady procession of bad economic news. But of equal importance was the better news that 159,000 new private sector jobs were added, making October the second strongest month of the year.

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New York Times: These 10 Charts Will Help You Understand 2024

Donald Trump triumphs. The economy chugs along. A tech billionaire builds a shadow presidency. These...

New York Times: Donald Trump Will Do Nothing to Bring Back Our Dying American Dream

Donald Trump got lucky in his first term. When he arrived, inflation was low, unemployment was falli...

The New York Times: How Project 2025 Would Change the Country

When Donald Trump takes the debate stage on Tuesday, he will doubtless again try to disavow Project ...

The New York Times: Don’t Take Trump’s Word for It. Check the Data.

For more than 90 minutes last week, Donald Trump gave a rambling speech accepting the Republican nom...

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