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WASHINGTON Peter Diamond's nomination to the powerful US Federal Reserve board was stymied this year by a lone Republican lawmaker, but the longtime MIT [...]

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Before you freak out, the stores are not in the immediate Los Angeles area. Just as El Segundo-based Fresh & Easy's parent company Tesco announced a 15% [...]

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But it also notes New York lost more than 367000 jobs and the unemployment rate more than doubled to 8.9 percent during the recession, a 17-year high. [...]

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Those who've lost their jobs during the recession are finding that they no longer qualify for jobs in their old fields because employers are demanding more [...]

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So why haven't the Democratic policies of President Obama been able to restore employment to its pre-recession levels? The answer is simple: not enough of a [...]

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LONDON (SHARECAST) - Companies are as negative about business prospects in the months ahead as they were at the height of the recession in May last year, [...]

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The recession that began at the end of 2007 "exacerbated this gap," the liberal-leaning think tank said, adding that almost three-quarters of non-profit [...]

6 Aug 2010 NBER is reluctant to declare that it officially ended last summer. The latest economic indicators suggest it may have been right to hold [...]

21 Sep 2010 Reporting From Washington This just in: The recession ended more than a "I'll start believing the recession is over when I stop seeing [...]

9 Jan 2010 Will there be, in effect, a "Generation Recession" of young people whose behaviors will be permanently shaped by the downturn? [...]

20 Sep 2010 The US recession that began in December 2007 ended in June 2009, according to NBER, the unofficial arbiter of the start and end dates of a [...]

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Download The recession affects women of reproductive age and their access to health care and contraception. Also, Bishop Eddie Long is accused of sexual abuse, and activists work to improve HIV health care for women and their children [...]

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The National Bureau of Economic Research, a panel of academic economists based in Cambridge, Mass., says the recession lasted 18 months. It started in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. That was the longest of any recession since [...]

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Ending the recession. The solution is simple. Stop providing public welfare for the rich and begin providing welfare for the unemployed. Here's how it works. Let's say you are Boeing. You are busy slopping at the public trough, [...]

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Black Friday: Neiman Marcus catalog thumbs nose at the recession. Jennifer B. Larson Jennifer B. Larson RSS Feed Oct 7th 2010 at 11:00AM. Text SizeAAA. Print this page |. $15000 gingerbread house from the Neiman Marcus catalog [...]

Despite the Fed's recent proclamation that the "recession has ended," a new survey reveals employees and job seekers may not believe this claim due to continued layoffs and other cutbacks within many companies. [...]

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Michael Burke | Comment is free Dublin's brave slashers have sent Ireland back into recession. Michael Burke is writing in the Guardian about the Lib/Con coalitions plans to emulate Ireland and argues that by comparing the strategies of [...]

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Earlier this week, the National Bureau of Economic Research (the official arbiter of recession dates) declared that the recession that began in December 2007 (Chart of the Day declared that the recession was 'underway' back in early [...]

Partly due to the decreasing of the recession, the targeted online sales rates for this period are anticipated to have a slight increase than the previous year's sales. The slow growth is still static caused by the growing of ecommerce [...]

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CEPR's Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee has announced that the recession that began in the first quarter of 2008 came to an end in the second quarter of 2009. Harald Uhlig of the University of Chicago, who chairs the committee, [...]

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U.S. cities suffered more harm to their fiscal condition in the latest recession than during any other economic decline in nearly a quarter of a century, a survey released by the National League of Cities on Wednesday found. [...]

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Recession Encourages New Student Entrepreneurs Cornellians continue to develop new businesses an effort that may have become more popular since the recession began. read more. Read more on The Cornell Daily Sun [...]

Finding a sarkari naukri is easy if you have the desired skills. For information about such government jobs, candidates are advised to make an extensive search through the online job portals. [...]

Bully in the playground Lula and the Carnival There is a lot of chatter around about the need by the Federal Reserve in the United States and the Bank of England here to expand its Quantitative Easing operations. This a type of economic policy that Central Banks undertake when they have run out of o [...]

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Seeking to eliminate the enormous lag of NBER in declaring the beginning and end of recessions, economist Marcelle Chauvet computes real-time recession probabilities in a manner consistent with the long after the fact findings of the [...]