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• U.S. unemployment rate hits a five-year high
Previously, the government reported job losses at 51,000 in each of those months. The latest snapshot was worse than economists were forecasting.
• Greenspan: Fed is not a ‘magical piggy bank’
WASHINGTON - Troubled by the Bear Stearns debacle, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is advocating a new way of dealing with government bailouts of companies whose sudden collapse could wreak havoc on the country's economic and financial ...
• Bleak jobs data keep economy at center stage
The unemployment rate in August jumped to 6.1 percent, the highest level in five years, from 5.7 percent in July, the government reported. Businesses cut 84,000 jobs — the eighth month in a row of shrinking payrolls.
• McCain Woos the Undecided
I will cut government spending. He will increase it," McCain said, as the crowd booed each time he mentioned his rival. "My tax cuts will create jobs.
• Cheney blasts Russia's 'threat of tyranny'
The show of support was important for Yushchenko's Western-leaning government, which has become increasingly nervous about its relations with Moscow.