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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! More than three years after it took a hard fall, there are signs that America’s industrial economy is getting back on its feet and regaining a bit of its lost swagger. New orders at factories rose smartly in December, and were up 12.1 percent in 2011 from [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! President Barack Obama leads both GOP front-runner Mitt Romney and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to the latest Washington Post/ABC poll. Fifty-two percent of voters surveyed chose Obama over Romney’s 43 percent. Obama has a 15-point advantage over [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! There isn’t a sentient being on the planet who believes Greece will ever pay its debts, and, thankfully, that condition has been dropped from the latest round of negotiations. Now, Greece is trying to negotiate a “voluntary” restructuring with its creditors, one that will result in those [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! On Tuesday, Nov. 6, Americans will head to the polls to elect the next President of the United States. Millions of dollars have already been spent on the election. Super PACs representing both President Obama and the Republican presidential candidates are experiencing a flood of monetary contributions [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! It’s looking increasingly like Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee to take on President Obama in November. Ralph Nader says the Democratic Party’s playbook should be the same, no matter who is the GOP standard bearer. According to the famed consumer advocate, progressive politician and three-time [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! There’s a lot of hype about the Super Bowl and almost as many myths and superstitions. In the accompanying video, Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner tackles three of the most common misconceptions about the Super Bowl, including one that could determine the outcome of the game. Myth #1) [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! President Obama used his last State of the Union speech before the November election to highlight the more than half a million jobs that can be created by investing in natural gas production in the United States. “We have a supply of natural gas that can last [...]

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For the first time in several years, we have an unambiguously positive employment report. The U.S. economy added 243,000 payroll jobs in January 2012 and the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent. One month does not a trend make, but the past several months of data show a labor market that is recovering, and an economy [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Testifying on Capitol Hill Thursday, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke sought to encourage, chide and gently prod Congress into putting the U.S. on a “sustainable path” to bring down — or at least stabilize — debt-to-GDP levels. “Achieving this goal should be a top priority,” Bernanke said. But [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! By now you’ve heard, Facebook filed paperwork to sell shares of the company to the public on Wednesday. The I.P.O. is expected to top Google’s record $1.67 billion 2004 tech offering with a value between $5 billion and $10 billion, making the company worth a hefty $75-to [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! The world’s millionaire club has to make room for a few more hundred people…at least. Facebook filed to go public on Wednesday and many current and former employees are expecting huge paydays. The public offering could value the social media titan between $75 billion to $100 billion [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Everyone knows the best part of the Super Bowl - the commercials. One day a year Americans skip the fast-forward button on their DVRs and direct their gaze on the television, assiduously watching every second of these highly-anticipated commercials. The annual ritual of watching Super Bowl ads [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Even before the ‘Occupy’ movement gripped America and the rest of the world last fall, The Daily Ticker had been covering the sad, but true reality of our country’s fading middle class: Middle-income families have been hit hard by more than 30 years of stagnating wages and [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here By winning handily in Florida, Mitt Romney put himself in back in the driver’s seat to win the GOP nomination. Whether or not Romney wins the nomination - much less the general election - private equity seems to be the big losers of the 2012 campaign so [...]

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Follow Yahoo!’s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! According to conventional wisdom, Mitt Romney’s big Florida primary win can be attributed to one thing: Money. Romney’s campaign outspent Gingrich by nearly 5-to-1 in the Sunshine State, with $15.4 million spent by Romney and pro-Romney Super PACs vs. just $3.7 million by Gingrich and his supporters, [...]

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