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Tight supplies boost US home prices

Improving jobs market and confidence drive sales

Ingram Pinn illustration Martin Wolf from COMMENT 8:00pm

America’s fiscal policy is not in crisis

The urgent challenge is to promote economic recovery

From WORLD Jan 22, 2013

US healthcare costs seek home remedy

FT series: America’s Debt Dilemma – Richard McGregor on Medicare

Jan 22, 2013

US home sales dip and inventories thin

Prices increase as recovery takes hold in housing sector

Inside Business from COMPANIES Jan 22, 2013

Outsourcing tide is not likely to turn

Hopes that activity lost to Asia will return look misplaced

US Dollar ©AFP From COMMENT Jan 21, 2013

America’s debt dilemma: A looming crisis

In the first of a series, Robin Harding examines the fiscal challenges that will shape the US in the 21st century

Larry Summers Lawrence Summers from COMMENT Jan 21, 2013

End the damaging obsession with deficit

America must not lose sight of infrastructure, jobs and growth

Jan 21, 2013

Investors gamble on US debt ceiling deal

Protracted haggling in Congress could undermine gains in equities

Jan 21, 2013

‘Age bomb’ threat to credit ratings

Fitch warns developed nations of negative impact without reforms

US Federal Reserve building ©Bloomberg From WORLD Jan 19, 2013

Fed minutes show slow crisis reaction

Transcripts from 2007 reveal subprime seen as ‘quite a good thing’

Jan 18, 2013

US budget woes sap consumer sentiment

Uncertainty weighs on confidence and future expectations

Jan 18, 2013

US homebuyers lose out to investors

Individuals keep being outbid for houses by groups with cash

Jan 17, 2013

US debt talks complicated by timing

Tax payments muddle government cash flow

Jan 17, 2013

Home construction surges in December

Housing recovery continues as home starts jump 12.1% in December

From WORLD Jan 16, 2013

Call to raise age for US’s Medicare

Washington grapples with a new fiscal crisis

Jan 16, 2013

US economy withstands fiscal cliff concerns

‘Beige Book’ reports economic growth across county

Jan 16, 2013

Research rewrites global trade data

US trade imbalance with China shrinks under OECD findings

Jan 16, 2013

WTO and OECD add value to trade debate

Official data no longer reflect realities of global economy

Jan 16, 2013

Business demand drives US factories

Industrial output rises 0.3% in December

Jan 15, 2013

US presses ahead with global trade talks

Deal would liberalise international services agreements

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