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The national economic indicators are increasingly bleak. Rising unemployment, a volatile stock market, foreclosures and declining real estate values have economists coming closer to the word “recession”. However the current downturn is defined, it is having a real impact on the lives of Chicago-area residents. Our occassional series, Economy Hits Home, explores that impact. For some, this is a sea change for the worse. People are losing jobs, changing careers and radically altering the way they live their everyday lives. But there are always winners in a slow economy and we’ll have those stories, too.
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Forecasting the Financial Year
David Greising, Bill Strauss, and Dennis Rodkin give their forecasts for the year in financial turmoil.
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Students Tackle Stock Market
Students around the country have been making, and losing, money in the market as part of the Stock Market Game.
Posted on 12.11.2008 |  |
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