After IPO, Facebook Gets Serious About Making Money

On the eve of Facebook's IPO anniversary Saturday, how the Menlo Park, Calif., company tackles revenue is one of the biggest challenges in its short life as a public company. After eight years of focusing on user growth, Facebook has pushed revenue up its priority list and restructured its business so that many of its best minds are now thinking about driving sales.

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Volcker: Government Makes Up 35% Of GDP, Mortgage Markets Are Now A State 'Subsidiary'

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10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate

1.87 Percent



Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Release: H.15 Selected Interest Rates

Notes:
For further information regarding treasury constant maturity data, please refer to http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/current/h15.pdf and http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/yieldmethod.aspx

M2 Money Stock (M2) May, 2013

2013-05-06: 10,540.2 Billions of Dollars

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION —APRIL 2013

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 165,000 in April, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 7.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Employment increased in professional and business services, food services and drinking places, retail trade, and health care.