ThinkstockThe global economy will expand at 3.7% this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast in its latest World Economic Outlook, released Tuesday. That is up from a 3.6% forecast back in October. The…
ThinkstockHeading into the Super Bowl, here is a rundown of the NFL’s 10 most expensive games of the year. Super Bowl XLVIII is obviously slated to be the single most expensive football game of…
ThinkstockShares in China had a rough start to the week as the Shanghai Composite Index fell below 2,000 Monday for the first time in almost six months. New data showed that factory output and…
ThinkstockIf the global economic recovery has left some things behind, the most important is probably job creation. In 2013, 202 million people were unemployed worldwide, up five million from 2012. It is hard to…
Naturally, it has occurred to people who do not have the money to retire that they shouldn't. Many baby boomers want to continue to work for years to come, even if they do not…
Forecasts have predicted that China's GDP will pass that of the United States sometime between 2030 and 2050. For the time being, those forecasts appear too optimistic. China's GDP growth appears to be slowing.
Wealthy elites have co-opted political power to rig the rules of the economic game, warned Oxfam in a new report published ahead of this week's World Economic Forum in Davos.
ThinkstockThe vast majority of working Americans spend their time at one job, but that isn’t the case for everyone. In 2012, roughly 5% of the U.S. working population held more than one job at…
The so-called Philly Fed index is out, showing an improvement for January and above expectations. The index has now been positive for eight consecutive months.
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department has two key readings out this Thursday — the Consumer Price Index and Weekly Jobless Claims. Headline inflation, the CPI, is mostly in-line with expectations for the…
ThinkstockIf the general U.S. economy has improved over the past year, most Americans have not seen its benefits, at least based on their personal experiences, according to new data from Gallup. The news is…
ThinkstockWholesale inflation was on the rise in December. The Labor Department released its Producer Price Index (PPI), showing a rise of 0.4% from the prior month and a rise of 1.2% from December 2012.…
While the developed economies of the world will stage improvements this year, and the growth of the developing world will accelerate sharply, the United States is the key to a strong global recovery in…
Wikimedia Commons/creative commonsIf you have been tracking credit ratings of states and nations since before the recession, something today almost seems impossible to imagine. California’s credit ratings are on the mend. They are far…
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has released its small business optimism index for the month of December. The report is pessimistic regarding the small business economy.