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Finance executives are choosing sides on whether they've been helped or hurt by the economic crisis.

November 1, 2009

As CFO went to press, the Labor Department released some bleak news about the job market: at the current rate of expansion, U.S. employment won't return to its prerecession level until 2016.

That's right, an 86-month slog back to the old normal, and that doesn't account for a projected increase in the working-age population over that seven-year-plus stretch. Read more...

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