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President Obama was in office for less than a month when the February 2009 jobs report reported some brutal news: The U.S. economy had lost a whopping 598,000 jobs and the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent.Officially, the Great Recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. At its depths, the unemployment rate hit 10 percent.Fast forward, and today, the unemployment rate is 4.7 percent. In December, the U.S. economy added 156,000 jobs, and our Solman Scale U7, a comprehensive measure of unemployment and underemployment, hit a low of 11.3 percentEconomics correspondent Paul Solman sat down with four economists to discuss President Obama economic legacy. For more, tune in to tonight Making Sen$e report, which airs every Thursday on the PBS NewsHour. Here a sneak peak at what Glenn Hubbard, Cecilia Rouse, Alan Krueger and Darrick Hamilton have to say:Glenn H stanley cup ubbardFormer chairman of President George W. Bushs Council of Economic AdvisersWhen Presi stanley cup dent Obama took office, the nation was in an economic crisis that it hadn ;t seen since the Great Depression. And the administration did try, in some ways that worked, other ways I think worked less well, to address that crisis. Over time, I think the re stanley cup cord is much more mixed with a continued highly regulatory approach that I think has slowed U.S. economic growth. So I think at the beginning there was a lot of effort, although maybe some misplaced, and over time, it was much more checkered. Cgcb Trump pushes back on intelligence assessment of North Korea
MADRID AP 鈥?Gibraltar on Thursday allowed a detained Iranian supertanker to leave the British overseas territory after a last-minute U.S. attempt to seize the vessel, potentially defusing tensions between London and Tehran as a British-flagged tanker remains held by the Islamic Republic.Th adidas samba og e release of the Grace 1 comes after the U.S. under President Donald Trump pulled out of Iran nuclear deal with world powers over a year ago, setting in motion a growing confrontation between Tehran and the West over its a yeezy tomic program. In past weeks, the Persian Gulf region has seen six attacks on oil tankers that the U.S. has blamed on Iran and the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone by Iranian forces. Iran has denied being behind the tanker attacks, though it has seized other tankers.The Gibraltar Chronicle newspaper reported there was no U.S. application before the court when a hearing on the Grace 1 resumed Thursday afternoon, quoting the court chief ju stanley cup stice, Anthony Dudley. That allowed the ship to be freed.That a stark change from a morning hearing, which saw Gibraltar say the Justice Department sought to seize the vessel on a number of allegations.Dudley said that were it not for the U.S. move, the ship would have sailed, the Chronicle reported.The Justice Department did not respond to requests for comment.Britain Foreign Office said in a statement that the investigations conducted around the Grace 1 are a matter f |
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