The September jobs report, which arrived seven weeks late, due to the U.S. government shutdown revealed that 119,000 new jobs were created that month. That far outpaced expectations for a 50,000 job gain. The better-than-expected September jobs report called into question whether or not the Federal Reserve will pull the trigger on a third interest...

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Few coins capture the raw urgency, ambition, and chaos of the American Gold Rush the way the 1851 $50 Humbert 880 Reeded Edge does. Today, this octagonal “fifty-dollar slug” stands among the most legendary issues in American numismatics, but its story begins in the dusty, makeshift streets of early San Francisco—where gold was plentiful, coinage...

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