US Jobless Claims Up, Gasoline Lifts Consumer Prices

Reuters
August 18, 2011

The number of Americans claiming new jobless benefits rose last week and consumer prices increased at the fastest pace in four months in July, highlighting the challenges facing the Federal Reserve.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 408,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday, above economists’ expectations for a rise to to 400,000.

Another report from the Labor Department showed the Consumer Price Index increased 0.5 percent in July, the largest gain since March, after falling 0.2 percent in June. That was above economists’ expectations for a 0.2 percent gain.

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9 Responses to “US Jobless Claims Up, Gasoline Lifts Consumer Prices”

  1. The Rockefeller family is in complete control of Exxon, Conoco Phillips and Chevron. When these companies do well, they spend the money on new Eugenic research. Yeah, we need oil and natural gas, but I say these companies should be seized from the Rockefellers and the Rockefellers should go to prison for life!

  2. easy fix: RON PAUL 2012!
    END THE F*^NG FED
    END THE WARS

  3. Lets eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die! The Amerikan way is to sink into oblivion!
    The Christian way is to power out with Jesus to be freed to travel and see the world and beyond!
    Some of you are missing out! Click my name and link with issue guide!!
    –e

  4. $.12 a gallon in Venezuela!!! WTF is up with that??? Gotta’ love Butt Rape American Economics!!! Go shoppin’(W)!!! Y’all have a goodin’!!!

    “All ‘HAIL’ Thermal Expansion!!!”

    HillbillyJihad TheBubbaLiberationFront

    • Love that screen name and the ending of all your comments,You always make me laugh even though shits so bad

    • Im thinking of changing my screen name to General Peritonitis since I’m always sick to my stomach over the world affairs

    • Word hillbilly- I live in Alaska and we pump gas to the US and all sorts of places. We pay out the ass for gas and I don’t get it either.

    • Lets eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die! The Amerikan way is to sink into oblivion!

      The Christian way is to power out with Jesus to be freed to travel and see the world and beyond!

      Some of you are missing out! Click my name and link with issue guide! –e

    • You’re funny!

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