Today everyone reported that the unemployment rate is at 6.7 percent after employers added 175,000 jobs last month. But where did this economic indicator come from? And how did it come to have so much power over us? Zachary Karabell, author of The Leading Indicators, explains its origins in today’s excerpt.
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Two well-known Obama campaign veterans are turning the deeply personal loss of their child after a premature birth into a public call to support Obamacare outreach.
Alaska pol says expanded access to birth control means taxpayer funded sexual “recreation.”
Meet the atheist leader who showed up at CPAC even after the organization, American Atheists, lost their booth at the conference.
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Earlier I discussed why Internet speeds are so slow in the USA. But what about within the USA? Not surprisingly, they vary a great deal.
House Democrats are pissed and want Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to be stripped of his chairmanship of the oversight committee after he shut off Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) mic during Wednesday’s IRS hearing.
Why is the Internet so slow? Or to put it more specifically, why are we used to internet speeds that are actually dramatically slower than they are in many other countries, even a number that are less wealthy and technologically advanced than we supposedly are?
Army’s top prosecutor on sexual assault cases suspended after allegedly groping female lawyer. Gets better: allegedly tried to kiss and grope her at 2011 sex assault legal conference!