U.S. finally a growth economy again

How declines in unemployment have helped spur the economy, plus other must-reads from wealth manager and CNBC commentator Josh Brown
DEC 06, 2013
Each week I read all of the important stories affecting your business and investments. Below is the weekly catch-up, curated just for you: Miracle of miracles: The U.S. is a growth economy again as unemployment ticks down to a five year low. (New York Times) Wall Street believes that 2014 is the year of normalization for the global economy. (BusinessInsider) Carl Icahn is Wall Street's Man of the Year. (TIME) Hedge fund returns are trailing stock market returns by the widest margin since 2005. (Bloomberg) Two-word investment outlooks. (Barron's) Joshua Morgan Brown is a New York City-based wealth manager and popular financial commentator on CNBC. You can follow his writing at The Reformed Broker blog and his random outbursts on Twitter @reformedbroker.

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