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  • Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian
    Foreign Debt Troubles Causing Pain For US Investors: El-Erian

    Debt problems in foreign countries are now also a problem for US investors, Pimco's Mohamed El-Erian told CNBC.

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    Busch: Chinese Rate Rise=European Frying

    China and the Far East occupy a far different place in the business cycle compared to Europe and the United States. The nascent Chinese exit strategy will be a test case for other nations to follow when the cycle recovers.

  • Nouriel Roubini
    Low Global Growth Will Persist: Roubini

    The Unites States, Europe and Japan will face a period of low economic growth due to the impact of a balance-sheet recession, where governments, individuals and banks are forced into austerity measures, Nouriel Roubini, economics professor and chairman at RGE.com, told CNBC Friday.

  • Lithuania
    Baltic Poor Take Austerity Measures on Chin

    As financial markets panic about the risks to the euro from laxer governments in southern Europe, the northern Baltic states are already in tight fiscal bandages as they experience Europe's most severe recession.

  • Busch: The Global Debt Dilemma

    Apparently, the Greek government has called in the big hitters to help them with their fiscal dilemma.

  • Critical Time for the Double Dip Scenario

    A pause is all very well, but if the monetary crutch that has supported recovery is kicked out too soon, that double dip scenario could become a reality.

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    World Financial Leaders Focus on Budget Crises

    Amid fears that go-it-alone moves such as President Barack Obama's plan to break up big banks will further hamper the fledging economic recovery, finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Seven major industrial countries meet.

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    After Escaping Jobless Rolls, Trauma May Linger

    Interviews with more than a dozen people who were out of work at least a half-year during the recession and have now landed jobs found many adjusting to new realities. .. In some ways, it is equivalent to the lingering symptoms of post-traumatic stress.

  • Help Wanted
    CEO Blog: Temporary Jobs Will Begin the Job Boom

    Many employers now say they may have cut too deeply at the height of the crisis. Still, in re-hiring now, amid continuing uncertainty, employers are cautious, frequently preferring the flexible, temporary option.

  • Chadwick: Don’t Rob Peter to Pay Paul

    The Federal Government cannot endlessly pour money into the economy to create new jobs. Sooner or later it must let the private sector take over.

  • Bill Gross
    Recovery Will Be 'Substantially Different This Time': Gross

    As workers struggle to find jobs and US regulation becomes more aggressive, the economic recovery will defy trends and make choices harder for investors, Pimco's Bill Gross told CNBC.

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    What, No Jobs Yet? It's the Recovery Everyone Loves To Hate

    There are so many opinions why the economy isn’t creating jobs in this recovery that impatience may be on the verge of exasperation.

  • Farrell: Dancing the Potomac Two Step

    Why would you ever want to be President? Everyone who comes to the job does so with some vision and dream and quickly has to learn how to dance the dance if anything is to be done. It's harder now than ever with the accumulated debt we have built up.

  • Pakistan Aims Reduce Inflation to Single Digits by Next Year

    Pakistan expects inflation next fiscal year to be reduced to single digits, bringing stability to the rupee, Minister for Finance & Economic Affairs, Shaukat Tarin, told CNBC on Friday.

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    Boomers: Action Plan If You're 50 and Haven't Saved A Dime

    The rise in job losses, grim prospects for Social Security benefits, and paltry personal savings has created a situation where many Boomers must put off retirement from the workforce because they simply cannot afford it.

  • President Barack Obama
    Farr: Obama Buck$—Start the Presses

    By all accounts, our current course is unsustainable, and something must be done. Put bluntly, Americans simply require more out of their government than they are willing to pay in taxes.

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    AIG $100 Million Bonus—Not Free Market Capitalism

    This $100 million A.I.G. bonus story is truly outrageous. This is a company that remains TARPed and bailed out to the tune of a staggering $124 billion in taxpayer dollars. They have already received $230 million in prior bonuses, from the taxpayers.

  • Farrell: Watch Out—Here Come the Taxes

    Even if this administration wanted to be serious about fiscal austerity, we would have a massive deficit. As it is, it looks like fiscal 2010's red ink will total over $1.5 trillion. I remember the late Senator from Illinois (of all places), Everett Dirksen, who once said "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money." He would freak at the thought of a trillion here or there.

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    Job Losses Less Than Thought; Planned Layoffs Gain

    Private-sector jobs fell by 22,000 in January, the smallest loss since employment began dropping in 2008 and even better than expectations, according to the ADP National Employment Report.

  • Former FHFA Director Disputes Paulson's Critique

    I was a bit surprised to read an excerpt from former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's new book, that depicted Lockhart as "nervous" in those crucial few days leading up to the takeover of Fannie and Freddie and very reluctant to put the two into conservatorship. Paulson called the FHFA a "weak regulator," and seemed to imply the same of Lockhart.