Economic Trends
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By staff WriterWho else can we blame for the economic crisis of 2008?
June 28, 2013
Why Americans are eating fewer hot dogsPeople arent eating fewer hot dogs considered the idea recession foodstuff because of the economy.
June 25, 2013
Servicemembers, Civilians Less Worried About EconomyCivilians and servicemembers alike are growing less concerned with the state of the economy, according to the First Command Financial Behaviors Index.
June 17, 2013
Investors Remain Bullish on Turkey Despite Political UnrestThe recent wave of anti-government protests in Turkey continues to gain steam but foreign investors are not particularly perturbed by the demonstrations. Not for the time being, anyway.
June 03, 2013
Abenomics Becomes an Ongoing MelodramaMany claim the Nikkei 255 index's 3.7% fall on Monday was the result of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abes recent economic policies.
June 03, 2013
The future of getting paid to be healthyTheres more to incentivizing health than monetary rewards and penalties.
May 14, 2013
Europeans grow dissatisfied with the inequities of the economic systemPeople arent happy that the gap between the rich and the poor has widened in the past five years.
May 13, 2013
Will Britain leave the EU?Talk of the possibility of Britain breaking out of the EU is spreading.