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Special Correspondent Martin Himel offers a rare look at daily life inside the highly secretive communist nation North Korea, where leaders are experimenting with ways to improve the economy.

At the Senate Banking Committee hearing to approve Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan for a fifth term, senators also sought to confirm whether a recent rise in retail inflation would lead the Fed to increase interest rates. Ray Suarez discusses…

In the more than 15 years since the late President Ronald Reagan left office, experts have continued to debate the merits of his policies. His economic agenda -- known as Reaganomics -- was characterized by tax cuts, deficit spending and…

Jun 04

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U.S. employers added nearly a quarter of a million jobs in the month of May, the ninth straight month of growth, while the unemployment rate held steady at 5.6 percent. Correspondent Jeffrey Brown looks at the current job picture and…