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• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Broward’s unemployment drop hits a record pace

  The jobless rate has been on relatively fast decline recently, according to new federal data.
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  JOBS

  South Florida gets a so-so jobs report

  South Florida’s labor market continues its slow path toward recovery at the start of 2012.
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  ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Government dragging down hiring in South Florida

  The private sector had a decent run on hiring, but the public sector is heading the other way on the hiring front.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  A booming trade route for art between Brazil and Miami

  New import statistics show Brazil has roared ahead as a major source of art and antiques in South Florida.
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  ECONOMY

  Four years later, South Florida’s worst recession only hints at a real recovery

  South Florida’s worst recession may be over, but the damage lingers. Economists think 2012 will finally bring a decent recovery.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  In economic terms, it’s June 2002 in South Florida

  The Miami Herald’s Economic Time Machine launched nearly a year ago with one mission: track South Florida’s recovery from the Great Recession. Each month, we crunch more than 10,000 bits of local economic data to see how current conditions compare to where they were before the downturn.

• ECONOMY

  Barack Obama faces a harder case for "morning in Miami" than Ronald Reagan did

  A housing bust made this recovery far harder than the one in the early ‘80s, when home building quickly bounced back.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  AutoNation reports strong February vehicle sales

  National dealership based in Fort Lauderdale is selling almost 20 percent more vehicles than a year ago.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  From tech bubble to financial crash: A history of pocketbook gloom in Florida

  Floridians felt happiest about their finances way back in 2000, and the gloomiest days came after the stock-market crash of 2008. But optimism has made a rebound.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Case-Shiller housing numbers looking better for South Florida

  Miami and Phoenix are the stand-outs in a disappointing housing report from December. The bad news about the good news: property values still down 3 percent from last year.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Florida feeling ok, but will it last?

  The latest University of Florida reading on consumer confidence shows sustained optimism. Just like last year. Then the state went into the dumps.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Latest South Florida housing numbers include a promising streak

  Washington’s housing-price index shows the first winning streak for South Florida in roughly five years.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Miami-Dade restaurants ready for big night amid a huge rebound

  The recession didn’t last long in Miami-Dade’s restaurant industry. Taxes are soaring above past peaks.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Cargo chasing records again in South Florida

  Imports and exports continue hitting record numbers, though a new gold rush skews the stats a bit. South Florida cargo levels still chasing past highs at the ports.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Business spending holding back South Florida’s rebound

  If this recovery isn’t going fast enough for you, don’t blame tourism. Construction, on the other hand...

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Is it morning again in Miami?

  A look at how South Florida’s economic rebound at the end of President Obama’s first term compares to the end of Ronald Reagan’s first term.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Job security way up in South Florida

  The number of South Floridians filing for their first unemployment checks continues to plunge. But the levels are still disturbingly high compared to years when the economy was healthy.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Hotel comeback hits a December plateau

  December brought another record for hotel tax collections in Miami-Dade, but the roaring growth of 2011 may be tapering off.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  Super Bowl spending in South Florida: the highlight reel

  A look at taxable sales when the Big Game to South Florida shows no big bump in spending. Super Bowl did score some touchdowns with hotel taxes, though.

• ECONOMIC TIME MACHINE

  National unemployment number much prettier than Miami-Dade’s

  Even if unemployment rises nationally with today’s report, it’s bound to land much lower than Miami-Dade’s double-digit jobless rate. Broward is more a mirror of the national hiring market.

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