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Brookings Institution Report Ranks Boston Economy 30th Nationally

Tom Fisher | Thu, 06/18/2009 - 1:43pm |  2 comments

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Yesterday the Brookings Institution released a report evaluating the effect of the Great Recession on employment and other economic indicators in the nation’s 100 largest cities. Even with a below-average showing for housing prices, Boston's economy doesn't look so bad in comparison to many
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North Dakota also worth looking at

AnnanAmos | June 25, 2009, 1:40 pm

One of the few Midwestern states to actually go the other way during the recession is North Dakota. North Dakota has an unemployment rate that's about half the national average - about 4.4%. The mining and oil industries are still going strong and there's actual expansion and job growth happening rather than the mass layoffs endemic to everywhere else. Obviously, it isn't as if it avoided the recession altogether - but it's growing, even if at a slightly slower pace, but growing all the same.

Economy's State...

erinm | June 22, 2009, 1:16 am

As long as someone has been making and distributing goods or services, there has been some sort of economy; economies grew larger as societies grew and became more complex.The third Friday of every June, and March, September and December are referred to as quadruple witching days. Quadruple witching days are days on which the stock market sees a large gain towards the end of the day's trading in four different securities, stock index futures, stock market index options, stock options, and single stock futures. Single stock futures didn't use to be on the list, but were put on the list in 2002 as part of deregulation of the stock market. (We all know how that turned out.) It used to be known as triple witching (likely a reference to the 3 witches in MacBeth), and it means no payday loans no faxing for traders on quadruple witching day.