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Some economists are predicting that an upcoming flood of government spending will kick-start a flagging economy.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
September 21, 2001
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Shaken consumer confidence could sink the global economy -- but not if we all spend enough at the mall.
By Damien Cave, Andrew Leonard and Katharine Mieszkowski
September 12, 2001
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Two new books on the economy blast investment bankers for bias and warn that the financial system is out of anyone's control.
By Damien Cave
July 19, 2001
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It was hard for lower-end workers to make ends meet in the Bay Area of the dot-com boom. And it's still hard in the bust.
By King Kaufman
April 27, 2001
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People unaffected by the economic downturn are forced to fill their days with work, lunch and maybe thinking about taking a vacation.
By Chris Colin
April 19, 2001
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They got hooked on credit cards when the good times seemed forever. Now the bills are due.
By Damien Cave
April 12, 2001
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Bush's bias toward industrial dinosaurs is strangling America's high-tech-driven growth.
By Herman M. Schwartz and Aida A. Hozic
March 16, 2001
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The president's loose talk of recession and hype for his tax cut have economists worried he'll wreck the economy.
By Andrew Leonard
March 16, 2001
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Who says this surplus-squandering hothead is "conservative"?
By Joan Walsh
March 16, 2001
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As the economic downturn deepens, once-immune geeks are starting to feel the pinch.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
March 13, 2001
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What goes around comes around -- laid-off dot-commers are discovering anew the joys of apathy.
By Janelle Brown and Katharine Mieszkowski
February 26, 2001
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Layoffs are never easy, but doing it the dot-com way is just plain dumb.
By Salon Technology & Business staff
January 25, 2001
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We've got our résumés ready, savings in the bank and our fingers crossed.
By Amanda Nielsen
January 25, 2001
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By Cary Tennis
January 11, 2001
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We've all been working too hard -- and for what?
By Cary Tennis
January 10, 2001
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Bob Woodward, author of a new book on the Federal Reserve chairman, explains the "maestro's" search for an economic soft landing.
By Damien Cave
January 10, 2001
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With all the negative buzz in the media and from the Bush campaign, you'd have thought we were headed straight into another Great Depression. Not so fast.
By Merrill Goozner
December 6, 2000
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A Yale finance expert predicts the U.S. economy will withstand global convulsions.
By Jonathan Broder
September 2, 1998