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Employers likely added 40,000 jobs in November as government releases report delayed by shutdown 9 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 1296
'FIRED FOR THE HOLIDAYS' Ford Lays Off Entire Factory As Job Market Collapses, Corporate Abandonment 5 appalachiablue Dec 2025 Dec 2025 19 1680
The White House spread tonight as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 1189
Exclusive-Tesla board made $3 billion via stock awards that dwarfed tech peers 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 1 587
Ford takes $19.5B charge in hybrid pivot, cancels F-150 Lightning EV, launches new battery storage business 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 620
Robots everywhere is the 0.0000001% (whites only) ultimate goal. 0 Justice matters. Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 793
1 Million Jobs Disappeared In America, And The US Job Market Is Collapsing 🪚 21 appalachiablue Dec 2025 Dec 2025 11 2788
This week's (December 15 - December 19) and next week's (December 22 - December 26) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 589
The Fed Chair Can't Be A Sock Puppet For Donald Trump - Senator Elizabeth Warren - CNBC 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 647
How the White House is using misleading comparisons to make inflation sound better - CNN The Source 7 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 10 1371
Federal Reserve cuts interest rates amid mixed economic data and divisions in its ranks - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 683
U.S. private payrolls increase by 4,750 on average in 4 weeks to November 22 - ADP 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 883
Powell says high inflation caused by Trump's tariffs - Reuters 2 TexasTowelie Dec 2025 Dec 2025 9 847
Home sellers are giving up at 'unusually high rate,' says new Realtor report 4 OnlinePoker Dec 2025 Dec 2025 15 1281
Economic Policy/ Pick Your Financial Crash 6 Passages Dec 2025 Dec 2025 8 1177
This week's (December 8 - December 12) and next week's (December 15 - December 19) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 734
The F.T.C. Chairman Who Tilted the Agency to Trump 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 660
Economic Policy Meet the Connectors 0 Passages Dec 2025 Dec 2025 1 641
I don't understand the employment data 6 question everything Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 1227
If you've seen the media ballyhooing today's positive consumer sentiment report 3 progree Dec 2025 Dec 2025 7 993
Inflation Report: The Fed's Next Rate Move Depends on Today's PCE Release 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 1 664
Layoffs 2025: Tech and government hardest hit as more than 1 million job losses announced so far this year 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 881
This week's (December 1 - December 5) and next week's (December 8 - December 12) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 1 688
Construction labor crunch drives up costs and deepens America's housing affordability crisis 4 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2025 Dec 2025 2 924
The Hidden Horrors of Whole Foods Grocery Chain 🫒 12 appalachiablue Dec 2025 Dec 2025 61 3626
Economic Policy Selling the Poor on Spending Like They're Rich 2 Passages Dec 2025 Dec 2025 26 1212
Starbucks to pay $35M to NYC workers after city alleges years of abuses 0 Passages Dec 2025 Dec 2025 4 657
Economic Policy Sources of America's Hidden Inflation 1 Passages Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 732
Economic Policy The Historic Reversal of Cultural Affordability 0 Passages Dec 2025 Dec 2025 1 680
Abercrombie & Fitch, Walmart, Nike, and other major brands that say Trump's tariffs are pushing them to raise prices 2 Eugene Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 1072

Economy Continued...

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CBS News Journalist Uses Pie To Illustrate Wealth Inequality In America 🥧 8 appalachiablue Nov 2025 Nov 2025 30 2181
The Poverty Line is actually $140K for a family of 4. Why so many are struggling and angry. 8 jmbar2 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 21 1941
The 'S&P 493' reveals a very different U.S. economy WaPo 1 question everything Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 1032
Busy busy day: ADP payrolls, Retail sales, Producer Price Index, Consumer Confidence 😱 UPDATED with LBN threads 4 progree Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 997
ADP Announces National Employment Report Preliminary Estimate Publicly Available on a Weekly Cadence 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 798
BLS: Revised news release dates following the 2025 lapse in appropriations 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 853
The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation 1 question everything Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 817
This week's (November 17 - November 21) and next week's (November 24 - November 28) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 721
Delayed September Jobs Report Expected to Show Continued Weak Growth 12 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 2062
What to expect in Thursday's jobs report 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 0 650
Crypto coins are all dropping. 6 multigraincracker Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 1346
US Department of Labor welcomes senior Trump Administration appointees 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 1061
US jobless benefits rolls in mid-October were the highest since August, Labor Dept says 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 878
10 Reduced inequalities Progress and setbacks in reducing income inequalities 0 Passages Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 688
Bill Maher on Mamdani, A.O.C., Bernie and Democratic Socialists. So he goes off on the failures of Socialism. 4 3Hotdogs Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 1217
World Inequality Report 2026 Coming out soon 0 Passages Nov 2025 Nov 2025 1 774
Apple intensifies succession planning for CEO Tim Cook, FT reports 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 1 725
This week's (November 10 - November 14) and next week's (November 17 - November 21) major U.S. economic reports 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 665
Private Equity's Big Scheme, Gut Everything from Red Lobster to Hospitals, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA) 3 appalachiablue Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 1077
The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You're Fired 8 question everything Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 1453
Trump goes after America's meat producers over rising prices after failed bid to boost Argentine beef 8 Eugene Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 1192
Trump team is secretly handing out massive tax breaks to wealthy American corporations: report 1 Eugene Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 871
U.S. freight-rail traffic drops 3.9% in Week 44 4 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 851
Let me relate my perspective on the Trump Tariff's...from an international. small business perspective. 4 OAITW r.2.0 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 1045
USA in Chaos - Joe Blogs 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 757
'Fentanyl Capitalism': How Tech Venture Capital Is Eating the World Catherine Bracy x Gil Duran 1 AStern Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 706
Looking to experts for how the Supreme Court will rule on tariffs? They aren't sure either. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 1 671
ADP Employment Report set to show modest rebound in October amid Fed policy uncertainty 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 1 718
'Big Short' investor Michael Burry is betting big against Nvidia and Palantir 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 6 905
Denny's to be acquired and taken private in a deal valued at $620 million 5 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 1161

Economy Continued...

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Bitcoin plummets to $100,000 as selling pressure mounts, government shutdown 'stalls' tailwinds 2 modrepub Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 868
169-year-old outdoor store chain to shutter half its stores by next year, citing tariffs 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2025 Nov 2025 7 1173
ADP Rolls Out Weekly Payrolls Data After Halting Data to Fed - Bloomberg Businessweek 0 SouthBayDem Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 814
🧰 Jobs Are Harder To Find, It's Not Just You, Let's Talk About The Economy - Sen. Elizabeth Warren 5 appalachiablue Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 1047
AI and the Future of Work - 1 hour discussion at CUNY Graduate Center 2 BootinUp Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 851
Banks and retailers run short on pennies as the US Mint stops making them 4 Eugene Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 1022
This week's (November 3 - November 7) and next week's (November 10 - November 14) major U.S. economic reports 2 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 791
Sora Proves the AI Bubble Is Going to Burst So Hard 7 Warpy Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 1402
September CPI preview: Inflation seen holding firm near 3% as tariffs complicate Fed's path 3 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 906
'It's like when you see the tsunami coming in': Agricultural economists sound the alarm about produce prices doubling 10 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2025 Oct 2025 18 2606
Trump takes wrecking ball to U.S. Economy and White House (3 articles) 1 Ranting Randy Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 1070
Andrew Ross Sorkin Explains the 1929 Financial Crash and Lessons for Today - Amanpour and Company PBS 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 770
US to publish CPI report for annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 796
This week's (October 20 - October 24) and next week's (October 27 - October 31) major U.S. economic reports 0 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 631
The UPS chaos shows tariffs have finally arrived on our doorsteps (snafus abound) 2 progree Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1009
Why is No One Talking About This? Economic Correction - Thom Hartmann 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 812
Tariff rollercoaster prompts Chinese exporters to 'give up' on US 1 Eugene Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 745
Coincidence? In three days, two items I ordered from Amazon --- 5 3Hotdogs Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1182
'Doughnut Economics' shows how global growth is out of balance--and how we can fix it 0 erronis Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 735
Some are saying this was Barron Trump! 15 pbmus Oct 2025 Oct 2025 31 3703
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