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Jaime Fuller

Jaime Fuller is the associate editor at The American Prospect.

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What Do You Do with a Pile of Cash?

Today's Balance Sheet: Investors and the stock market are likely to be in a good mood after Apple's big announcement.

Jaime FullerMar 19, 2012
The Washington Post

Apple—the world's most valuable company—announced today that it plans to use some of its $97 billion cash stockpile toward paying a regular dividend of $2.65 per share starting in the fourth quarter, and a stock buyback of up to $10 billion.

The World Gives Greece Another Loan

Today's Balance Sheet: The IMF moves forward with its contribution to the bailout. 

Jaime FullerMar 16, 2012
Moneybox

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $36 billion contribution toward the latest Greek bailout. Along with more than $170 billion from other European governments and institutions, the IMF loans will be doled out over the course of four years, hopefully allowing the country and the eurozone to regain their financial standing.

Hating Wall Street Springs Eternal

Today's Balance Sheet: The Goldman Sachs employee strikes back.

Jaime FullerMar 15, 2012
NPR

After Goldman Sachs employee Greg Smith quit his job with a loud and blistering  New York Times op-ed, Wall Street is once again at the forefront of the national conversation.

Banks Holding Up to the Downturn Stress

Today's Balance Sheet: The next round of bank stress tests finish up this week.

Jaime FullerMar 12, 2012

The Federal Reserve is scheduled to release the results of the latest bank stress tests this Thursday, which are expected to signal healthy balance sheets—a marked difference from the 2009 round of stress tests, and another indicator that our slowly recovering economy has been on an even sunnier upswing the past few months. The previous round of stress tests—which ended last March—weren't released to the public.

February Jobs Numbers: +227,000

Today's Balance Sheet: Job numbers keep on keeping on. 

Jaime FullerMar 09, 2012

The unemployment rate remained at 8.3 percent after a gain of 227,000 jobs this February, according to the monthly report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics this morning. This marks the third month in a row where the economy gained more than 200,000 jobs, a streak we haven't seen since early 2011.

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