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Sales at U.S. retailers increased a seasonally adjusted 0.5% in October 2011, indicates the monthly retail trade report released by the Census Bureau early Tuesday. Retail sales, making up nearly half of all consumer spending, serve as a major indicator of consumer spending trends.  While September retail sales grew at a higher month-to-month rate of [...]

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“The missing piece of the U.S. economic recovery – job creation – is finally falling into place,” wrote The Washington Post on Friday. But is it?

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