Hampered growth in the early part of the year that was in the event that eyepopping number showing the economy contracted nearly 3 in the first quarter. But then slowly the economy seems to be finding its footing again. So does that mean were on track for stronger growth in the second half . Steve liesman takes a look. Here is what to watch for in the economy in the second half. The best guess is that the economy and jobs will both strengthen. Is not so much because of any positives, but the lack of negative ones. Most economists see 2014 as a year where the headwinds that have held back growth are easing up. The political high jinks that hobbled the economy last year like the fight to the death over the budget resulting in the Government Shutdown seems to have been resolved at least for now. Job growth hurt by a severe winter look to be picking up. Europe seems to be clawing its way back, at least no longer negative. The big challenge weve been maintaining 200,000 plus job growth mont
Hampered growth in the early part of the year that was in the event that eyepopping number showing the economy contracted nearly 3 in the first quarter. But then slowly the economy seems to be finding its footing again. So does that mean were on track for stronger growth in the second half . Steve liesman takes a look. Here is what to watch for in the economy in the second half. The best guess is that the economy and jobs will both strengthen. Is not so much because of any positives, but the lack of negative ones. Most economists see 2014 as a year where the headwinds that have held back growth are easing up. The political high jinks that hobbled the economy last year like the fight to the death over the budget resulting in the Government Shutdown seems to have been resolved at least for now. Job growth hurt by a severe winter look to be picking up. Europe seems to be clawing its way back, at least no longer negative. The big challenge weve been maintaining 200,000 plus job growth mont
Hampered growth in the early part of the year that was in the event that eyepopping number showing the economy contracted nearly 3 in the first quarter. But then slowly the economy seems to be finding its footing again. So does that mean were on track for stronger growth in the second half . Steve liesman takes a look. Here is what to watch for in the economy in the second half. The best guess is that the economy and jobs will both strengthen. Is not so much because of any positives, but the lack of negative ones. Most economists see 2014 as a year where the headwinds that have held back growth are easing up. The political high jinks that hobbled the economy last year like the fight to the death over the budget resulting in the Government Shutdown seems to have been resolved at least for now. Job growth hurt by a severe winter look to be picking up. Europe seems to be clawing its way back, at least no longer negative. The big challenge weve been maintaining 200,000 plus job growth mont
Showing the economy contracted nearly 3 in the first quarter. But then slowly the economy seems to be finding its footing again. So does that mean were on track for stronger growth in the second half . Steve liesman takes a look. Here is what to watch for in the economy in the second half. The best guess is that the economy and jobs will both strengthen. Is not so much because of any positives, but the lack of negative ones. Most economists see 2014 as a year where the headwinds that have held back growth are easing up. The political high jinks that hobbled the economy last year like the fight to the death over the budget resulting in the Government Shutdown seems to have been resolved at least for now. Job growth hurt by a severe winter look to be picking up. Europe seems to be clawing its way back, at least no longer negative. The big challenge weve been maintaining 200,000 plus job growth monthly and how the economy will react as the Federal Reserve gradually draws down its stimulus
Washington. And the health of the exchanges, and now that some of the issues plaguing the federal health marketplaces have been identified, are they too complex that is a shorter period of time than republicans wanted because they wanted to preserve the lower sequester spending levels as long as they could. The debt extension level would be through the middle of february, february 7th to be exact, shorter than democrats wanted, there would be a budget, a negotiation at that time. There does not appear to be a rollback or appeal of the device tax that some republicans asked for. There will be income strength and subsidies under obama care, and as a trade for that, democrats are going to get something labor unions have asked for, which is the delay in insurance tax, which labor unions complain hit their taxes too hard. Hi, john, it sounds like some of the main issues that were on the table in the beginning have been pushed off. This is all about pushing all the problems down the line. Is