Joseph Lawler

The top 85 billionaires are together worth more than the bottom 4.5 billion people in the world, according to a new report from the anti-poverty group Oxfam that has gone viral ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Economy

Viral report: Top 85 billionaires worth more than bottom half of world’s individuals

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January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Even though the unemployment rate has come down significantly, from 10 percent at its highest to the current 6.7 percent, workers also have been fleeing the labor force. (AP Photo)

Economy

The week ahead in economics: Jobs recovery, Davos and the Fed

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January 20, 2014 5:00 am

Economy

Big Ideas: On Christie’s mess, suburbanites and Bitcoin

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January 17, 2014 5:00 am

Job openings for December. JOLTS report.

Economy

No increase in hiring in November

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January 17, 2014 5:00 am

Led by rising gasoline costs, inflation rose 0.3 percent on an annual basis in December, according to a Thursday release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from no increase the month before and a slight decrease in October. (AP/Charlie Riedel)

Economy

Inflation edges up in December

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January 16, 2014 5:00 am

Economy

Treasury’s Jack Lew: U.S. boosted by ‘economic tailwinds’

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January 16, 2014 5:00 am

With his tenure as Federal Reserve chairman winding down, Ben Bernanke once again defended his record in steering the central bank through the financial crisis of 2008 and the ensuing prolonged recession at an event at the Brookings Institution Thursday morning. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty images)

Economy

Ben Bernanke defends bailouts, easy money policies

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January 16, 2014 5:00 am

The Fed cited the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, which cost BP $42.2 billion through 2012, as the kind of risk that banks could be exposed to in the future.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Economy

Feds look into Wall Street’s vulnerability to natural disasters, train crashes and other accidents

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January 15, 2014 5:00 am

An open letter organized by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute recommends legislation introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, that would increase the federal minimum wage from its current $7.25 hourly rate to $10.10, indexed to increase with inflation.ÃÂ (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Economy

Seven Nobel Prize-winning economists endorse increase in minimum wage

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January 14, 2014 5:00 am

The U.S. Treasury posted a surplus in December, thanks partly to payments from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Economy

Treasury takes in $53 billion in December

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January 14, 2014 5:00 am

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Viral report: Top 85 billionaires worth more than bottom half of world’s individuals

The week ahead in economics: Jobs recovery, Davos and the Fed

Big Ideas: On Christie’s mess, suburbanites and Bitcoin

No increase in hiring in November

Inflation edges up in December

Treasury’s Jack Lew: U.S. boosted by ‘economic tailwinds’

Ben Bernanke defends bailouts, easy money policies

Feds look into Wall Street’s vulnerability to natural disasters, train crashes and other accidents

Seven Nobel Prize-winning economists endorse increase in minimum wage

Treasury takes in $53 billion in December

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