CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writers

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  Federal Reserve missed signs on financial crisis

  By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writers  |  January 21, 2013

  Federal Reserve officials in 2007 badly underestimated the scope of the approaching financial crisis and how it would tip the U.S. economy into the deepest recession since the Great Depression, transcripts of the Fed's policy meetings that year show.

• Tepid economic growth weighs on US job market

  By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writers  |  June 28, 2012

  The U.S. economy is growing too slowly to pull the job market out of a slump, according to the latest data that suggest June will be another weak month for hiring.