Why an expanding economy does not create new jobs - 2004-03-07
Call it the mystery of the missing jobs, a kind of economic whodunit. Over the past two months, the economy has created only 118,000 new positions - hardly enough to provide the growth that will keep the country on a roll in 2004.

With the fall election, that may mean the nation's central bank keeps rates low through the rest of the year, bringing another round of mortgage refinancing and help for the auto industry.
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U.S. economist forecasts global boom; weak dollar - 2004-03-07
One of the top U.S. economist said he predicts a boom year in both the U.S. and global economies that likely will fuel a further advance in equity markets worldwide, but he added the U.S. dollar was likely to weaken further.

Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics, told a panel in Kuwait City that the world economy will witness one of its strongest years in a decade and will continue to strengthen into 2005, possibly 2006.
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