Economics 6th Hour

Story Highlights National unemployment rate fell from 7.9% to 7.7% Job growth has been modest Fiscal cliff tempers hiring A job seeker talks to a recruiter at a job fair expo in Anaheim, Calif.

Worries about the U.S. fiscal cliff weighed on world markets today, after Republicans failed to pass their Plan B emergency fix. If Congress doesn't act by Dec. 31, taxes will rise, defense and non-defense spending will be slashed. Economists say the full force the laws that go into effect for 2013 could send the nation back into recession.

This article explains how the U.S. economy showed surprising signs of resilience in November despite the approach of the so-called fiscal cliff. It seems that not as many people have cut back spending as expected with a possible fiscal cliff in 2013 which would raise household taxes.

This article has to do with the buying and trading of stocks. It also has to do with a trade floors. NYSE is combining with Ice. They are making a lot of money.

This article relates to economics because it talks about the stock market. The stock market is all about economics because it involves money, stocks, and bonds. This article also talks about fiscal cliff. Fiscal cliff is the popular shorthand term used to describe the conundrum that the U.S. government will face. This article later talks about settling claims It also mentions that the Treasury Department will put all of its money into General Motors. It also mentions trading. Overall, this whole article is just full of economics.

In this article it talks about how the gas prices have been steady and are predicted to fall next year which could help the economy

This relates to economy because with the decreased prices of gas, it will help lower inflation and boost the economy.

This affects the economy because hiring more workers will mean increased pay for employees and that will increase consumer spending which will help the economy.

This deals with economics because immigrant women had help the rise in the birthrate but it is now dropping due to those women opting out of maternity wards. This effects the US in the sense that the US birthrate is now closer/lower to the ones of European countries. This means that women have come around to realize that the less children-the more money. Women are noticing an easier life without children.

The markets were down across the board friday. the biggest catalyst of the day came from the release of october jobs data. we added 171,000 non-farm jobs. but this may have caused the markets to flounder. this may help obamas efforts in beating romney.

Just because the unemployment rate rose only by 0.1 pct, doesn't mean that America lost jobs. Actually, since more people have started looking for jobs, there are more people unemployed because there are more people who are actually trying to get a job now.

The dollar value has grew pushing the dollar higher against other major currencies, which means it could lead to lower oil prices and less expensive imports, which will help the growth of the economy.

CEO's have come up with a debt-reduction plan that raises tax revenue and cuts spending and help the econmy's debt

Stocks closed with a slim gain today because investors weighed better-then-expected data against concerns about corporate earnings.

This is related to economics because it tells about how stocks in the U.S. dropped sharply recently, affecting everyone who took part in buying and selling stocks and overall affecting the economy.

This relates to economics because it describes the situation that the upper class is causing and how it affects the middle and low class.

This relates to economics because people are working more years than they used to. Many are retiring later because they need the money.

this deals with economics because people are lieing about faat checks from the government

The article has to do with supply and demand.

This relates to economics because the whole article talks about loans and mortgages. It also talks about Wall Street.