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Tuesday, Jul 14, 2009
  1. Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, speaks during a panel discussion at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 23, 2009. REUTERS/Chip East
    Goldman Sachs profit tops $3B on strong trading AP - Thu Oct 15, 1:58 PM ETSent 123 times

    NEW YORK - Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s third-quarter earnings more than tripled from the depths of the financial crisis as income from the company's trading operations offset a drop in its investment banking business.

  2. Jose Betancourt, 57, talks to a reporter outside the South Florida Workforce office in Miami, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Betancourt spends two hours on buses to get to a South Florida Workforce career center in the Miami area, a couple of times a week, to get job training. He's been out of work since July after being let go from his job as a supermarket maintenance worker and lives on about $600 a month in unemployment benefits. That barely pays for the rent for his tiny efficiency, food and utilities. The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 and is likely to go higher. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
    What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent AP - Fri Nov 6, 6:39 PM ETSent 17 times

    WASHINGTON - Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than previously thought.