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By JONATHAN LANSNER, Orange County Register: Business
Tue, 10/28/2014 - 8:10pm

A perplexing trend inside the local economic recovery is Orange County’s inability to top its old employment peak. We’re roughly 60,000 jobs short of 2006’s jobs peak record, a 4 percent shortfall. Both national and state job counts have topped...

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Bill Gross, Mohamed El-Erian warn against counting the Fed out
Three of the world’s most influential bond investors say the Federal Reserve is still on course to raise interest rates this year, a view the head of the New York Fed signaled could happen twice -- even after April’s smaller-than-predicted gain... More

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