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...With reporting by Bernard Baumohl and Julie Rawe/New York and David S. Jackson/Los Angeles
...Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine. It's a diverse mix, though it flows surprisingly well. Highlights include David Holmes' _film noir_-style instrumental ("Blood Money"), and the catchy Jagz Kooner mix of "Swastika Eyes." The finale, "Shoot Speed/Kill Light" features the blazing guitar of New Order's Bernard Sumner...
...overheating economy when the Labor Department reported that fewer Americans have filed joblessness claims in the past month than at any time since Richard Nixon's first term. "These numbers show us that we're clearly scraping the bottom of the labor pool," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "It means that we're probably going to see the unemployment rate, which is already at a record low, go even lower. And that could encourage the Fed to continue to raise interest rates...
...imports increase as long as the economy grows," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "But there's certainly a concern that our exports are down despite the fact that Asian and European economies have begun to rebound. Maintaining the high deficit is dangerous because that means a huge debt, and if our creditors lose confidence in the U.S. economy and begin selling dollars, which drives down the value of the currency, that could spark a serious inflation threat." The best way to keep America's creditors sweet on the dollar is to make their returns more attractive by raising...
...This is another sign that the economy seems to be slowing a bit from its red-hot run," says TIME senior financial writer Bernard Baumohl. Housing starts, explains Baumohl, are among the most interest-sensitive components of the economy, and tend to be a particularly prescient overall financial indicator. "When interest rates go up, as they have been," says Baumohl, "the first sectors to register a slowdown are car and housing purchases." In other words, Fed chairman Alan Greenspan's penchant for quarter-point hikes may have finally eased the American public's seemingly insatiable taste for big-ticket items...