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Paul Solman: "Ask Larry" Kotlikoff is a hot commodity here on Making Sense, not only as our (and your) Social Security sherpa, but as a sometime commentator on economics, which is how he's known to the rest of the…

Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its final unemployment numbers for the year, let's take one last look at 2012's unemployment indicators, month-by-month. We've compiled a year's worth of our own, more-inclusive U-7 figures --…

A job seeker looks over material during a HIREvent job fair in San Jose, Calif. Photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Nothing dramatic on the jobs front this month. December's unemployment rate held steady at 7.8 percent. The…

Photo of U.S. Capitol by Flickr user UlisesJorge via Creative Commons. By Jonathan Masters, online writer/editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The U.S. Treasury has borrowed trillions of dollars over the past decade, much of it from…