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- Manufacturing employment in the U.S. has grown faster than in any other developed country over the last two years. [Financial Times]
- Under a new regulation, the nation’s biggest banks will have to draft “living wills,” to be used in the event a bank has to be dismantled by federal regulators. [Housing Wire]
- State funding for public research universities dropped about 20 percent between 2002 and 2010. [Inside Higher Ed]
- The World Bank has lowered its global growth forecast for 2012. [Wall Street Journal]
- Fewer than one-tenth of the nation’s cities have gained back the jobs they lost in the Great Recession. [New York Times]
- The International Monetary Fund would like to boost its lending resources by $1 trillion in order to guard against an expansion of the European debt crisis. [Bloomberg]
- Oil demand is falling for the first time since 2009. [Financial Times]
- In the last decade, the Super Bowl has generated more than $1.7 billion in network advertising sales. [Politico]
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