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Given the reactions that President Obama got after he proposed raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour in his State of the Union address, he must have felt a little like comedian Rodney Dangerfield. He just didn't get any respect. And that was ...

The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery By Noam ScheiberSimon & Schuster; 351 pp; $28 Joining Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in the ranks of Americans temporarily rooting against a strengthening American economy is Noam Scheiber.

Washington - President Barack Obama nominated longtime adviser Jason Furman to be his new chief economist on Monday, elevating a former campaign aide and Clinton administration official to oversee an agency with wide influence over US economic ...

President Barack Obama intends to nominate Jason Furman, a long-time aide, as chairman of the Council on Economic Advisers at a White House ceremony today, according to administration officials. Furman is a Harvard-trained economist who has ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) President Obama is set to name Jason Furman as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, the fourth person to hold the top economics post since Obama took office. Furman has served as assistant to the president for ...

Subscriber Content Preview | Search by CBRE Global Investors hired Peggy DaSilva as a managing director and portfolio manager in its managed accounts group in New York. DaSilva was a managing director at Rockefeller Group since November 2011. Before ...

Regina Lewis updates MSNBC's Alex Witt on the week's Three Big Money Headlines. She comments on May's jobs numbers including the addition of 25,000 part-time jobs. Regina Lewis explains how the positive job numbers are driving mortgage rates higher.

Japan is aiming to further weaken its currency and help its biggest companies sell more goods abroad. The Asian nation, by doing so, is exporting its problems, threatening a trade war that likely would turn ugly and claim financial victims across ...