Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=15998632'>posted</a> on 09/13/2012:

Friday 09/13/2012

The sluggish labor market is seen prompting the Federal Reserve to announce a third round of bond purchases at the end of a two-day policy meeting later on Thursday.

The unemployment rate has been stuck above 8 percent for more than three years, the first time this has happened since the Great Depression.