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The Department of Labor reported last week that more than three million people filed for unemployment from March 15 to March 21, the largest single-week increase in American history. But this Thursday’s number, which reflects claims filed last week, could rise to 5.6 million,.. Morgan Stanley estimates that claims will rise to 4.5 million in tomorrow’s report; Goldman Sachs’s estimate is 5.5 million,according to an analysis of Google search data by the economists Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham of Yale and Aaron Sojourner of the University of Minnesota. If these forecasts are accurate, there will be as many claims in two weeks as...

<p>For too long, the national debate on climate change has been deadlocked. On one side are those calling for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, despite the economic costs. On the other side are many business leaders who have played down the global warming threat, fearing that new regulations will cut their profits and their payrolls. The debate on global warming itself has become overheated with acrimony and polluted by misinformation.</p>

The Dow is down — these days often attributed to war jitters. Oil prices and health costs are up, and over 8 million people are unemployed. On March 8, 2003 the Department of Labor released new figures that were, according to news analysts, "far more severe" than had been predicted. Recently, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ran a page one story on a worker who had sent out over 700 resumes without landing a job. The White House now estimates the budget deficit will hit a record $304 billion this year. On March 6, 2003, the NEW YORK TIMES reported that...