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• Wall Street hopes for best, readies for worst
But with the employment picture deteriorating and uncertainty running high over the health of some key financial players, the market remains on shaky ground — as evidenced by the Dow Jones industrial average’s 344-point drop last Thursday.
• Politics aside, would you hire Sarah Palin?
Nancy Cooper, an employment lawyer at Garvey Schubert Barer in Portland, Ore. : All the things that are forbidden in an employment interview are fair game in the public scrutiny of a political candidate.
• U.S. unemployment rate hits a five-year high
With the employment situation deteriorating, there’s growing worry that consumers will recoil, throwing the economy into a tailspin later this year or early next year.
• World markets plunge after Wall Street sell-off
Pessimism permeated markets as they nervously awaited the August U.S. employment report later Friday. “This is generally expected to be showing a further 75,000 jobs were lost in August, although following bad data yesterday there is a fear that the ...
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In response, senior policy adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin said that the key to John McCain’s middle-class proposals is allowing people employment opportunities, which in turn ensures that they have the opportunity to benefit from lower taxes.