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Guest Post: Third Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

If I said it once, I said it one thousand times: “My biggest fear is that the Fed is sowing the seeds of the next crisis with their flatter yield curve tricks, leaving many investors holding these low yielding long bonds when rates rise in future years, unable to get out without substantial capital losses.” in July and CoreLogic, +4.6%

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Guest Post: 2013 Economic Year in Review and Outlook by Banker Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

The National Association of Business Economics, or “NABE,” is almost as optimistic at close to 3%. and Janney Capital Markets at 2.1% Businesses are still cautious in capital spending. Dorothy has been with First Federal of Bucks County since November, 2004.

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Guest Post: Financial Markets and Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

The federal stimulus also drove our national debt levels to over $30 trillion, or 123.4% Productivity has been on the rise, with capital investment in technology and machines, and may serve to keep unit labor costs in check and profit margins stable. Dorothy has been with Penn Community Bank and its predecessor since November, 2004.

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Guest Post: 3rd Quarter Economic Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Greenspan faced the 1987 stock market crash when he was new and in the late 1990s, faced the Asian currency crisis and the collapse of Long Term Capital Management, and the stock market crash of 2000. Dorothy has been with First Federal of Bucks County since November, 2004.

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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Housing markets have begun to improve with the national indices showing year-over-year growth of 3% to 4% recently. The stock markets rejoiced and rallied 2% to 3% on January 2nd, because the fiscal cliff was now manageable, not an apocalypse. Dorothy has been with First Federal of Bucks County since November, 2004.

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Guest Post: 3rd Quarter Economic Update by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Well, if you are NBER, or National Bureau for Economic Research, and you wait fifteen months to declare that the recession was over in June, 2009 (its duration was 19 months), no one will care. Rebuilding of depleted inventories and increased capital spending helped to get GDP growth back on track in the summer of 2009 and into 2010.

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