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Credit crunch forcing US middle classes to live in their cars
Consumer Sentiment Index Falls in June Confidence among U.S. consumers fell in June to the lowest level in 28 years as record-high gasoline and rising joblessness rattled Americans. http://tinyurl .com/5rxbkt... ...
U.S. Jobs Fall For Fifth Consecutive Month
May's U.S. unemployment rate rose to 5.5%, up from 5.0% in April--the largest jump in the jobless figure since October 2004 and the fifth straight month of job losses, according to the Labor Department's... ...
From the Credit Crunch to the Spectre of Global Crisis
By Chris Harman The easiest explanation for the crisis is to blame the bankers. The crisis "follows a well-trodden path laid down by centuries of financial folly", says Ken Rogoff, former chief economist... ...
Blame the Fed
Cato Institute by Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr. 05/05/08 The U.S. economy is in the midst of an old-style credit crunch brought on by a combination of bad policies and incredibly lax underwriting standards... ...
Global Hunger, Corporate Greed: When will enough be enough?
By Debnath Guharoy Systemic deception has become acceptable culture in too many boardrooms, with nothing more than a wink and a nod required down the chain of command. When it gets to a point that an... ...
US Subprime Crisis to Claim 200,000 Bank Jobs
Tom Bawden reports for The Times UK, "Commercial banks will cut a record 200,000 US jobs in the next 12 to 18 months to reduce costs as the credit crunch continues to wreak havoc on the bottom lines of... ...
Qualified Borrowers Face Credit Squeeze
Kimberly Blanton, reporting for The Boston Globe, writes, "Lenders are rejecting more loan applicants with strong credit scores, the latest indication the nation's credit crunch is deepening and further... ...
Stocks Tumble Around World, Dollar Declines After Fed Cuts Rate
UBS AG posted its biggest drop in more than nine years in Zurich and Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. fell to the lowest in four years. Europe's Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index and Japan's Nikkei... ...
Fed Says Economy Has Weakened This Year
"The economy has weakened since the start of this year as shoppers turned even more cautious given the severe housing slump and painful credit crunch.... Many economists fear that the country is teetering... ...
Paul Krugman: A Long Story
Paul Krugman, in a column for The New York Times, writes: "the economic news has been fairly dire this week. The credit crunch is getting worse, and a widely watched indicator of trends in the service... ...