by JULIA ZHU | Oct 16, 2012 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — U.S. Federal Reserve Board Gov. Jeremy Stein defended the Fed’s recently announced policy of the third round mortgage-backed security purchases and restated its priority is to lower the unemployment rate and boost the U.S. economy. Stein spoke...
by JULIA ZHU | Oct 9, 2012 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — Workers may find it difficult to get a job, but there’s one industry where employers can’t hire fast enough: trucking. “We are absolutely seeing [a] driver shortage right now,” said Rod Suarez from the American Trucking Association, the largest national...
by JULIA ZHU | Oct 4, 2012 | Business & Tech, Politics
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Thousands of American college students participated in real-time polling while watching the first presidential debate, and their views were dramatically different from those featured in other instant-reaction polls. The results showed young people...