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Analysis: Obama could risk going over 'cliff'
It may be just a bluff or a bargaining ploy, but the White House is signaling that President Barack Obama is willing to let the country go over the ...
Officials reject conspiracies on unemployment rate
When conspiracists suggested Friday that the Obama administration had engineered a sharp drop in unemployment to aid President Barack Obama's ...
The Fed steps in, and stocks soar: Dow climbs 206
The stock market staged a huge rally Thursday after investors got the aggressive economic help they wanted from the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones ...
Forecast of modest US job gains may not lift Obama
U.S. employers likely added jobs last month, though probably not enough to push down the unemployment rate. A tepid report Friday on hiring in August ...
First since '52: No talk of war in GOP speech
With America embroiled in its longest armed conflict, Mitt Romney became the first Republican since 1952 to accept his party's nomination without ...
A word from Bernanke turns stocks around
The stock market keeps getting tossed around by the Fed. Stocks opened lower Friday but reversed course after a letter surfaced from Federal Reserve ...