A couple weeks back, the news headlines shouted that the national unemployment rate had declined to 8.6 percent in November from 9 percent the prior month. 

American consumers are feeling much better about the state of the U.S. economy and opening their wallets at the cash register as we head into the meat of the holiday season.

Presidential candidate Rick Perry’s very high-profile brain freeze at the Nov. 9 Republican presidential debate in Michigan was a vivid example of what can go wrong in public-speaking engagements.

In this video commentary, Adam Rombel, editor-in-chief of The Central New York Business Journal, talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly of the October national employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.