The Rust Belt has many economic challenges, but also boasts important economic strengths, perhaps none as important as the tremendous innovation and talent emerging from its companies and universities, argues John C. Austin of…
The U.S. Department of Labor has released data indicating that nonfarm labor productivity rose by 2.9% in the second quarter of 2018. This was the strongest productivity gain in over three years.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday morning that retail sales in July rose 0.5% month over month and more than 6% year over year. The increase was much better than expected.
The National Federation of Independent Business reported Tuesday morning that its small business optimism index rose to its second-highest reading in 45 years. Finding qualified employees remains the top issue for small business owners.
If the CBO is correct, the U.S. economy will go two decades without a recession, which is near twice any past the period.
Wildfires continue to burn over large swathes of California and other western states. Six new large fires were reported on Saturday.
The message that the investment community has heard for the better part of 18 months now is that higher interest rates are coming. Yet longer-term interest rates have remained stuck under 3%.
24/7 Wall St. has decided to take a look at the situation in Turkey so that investors, economists and the public have an idea of just how important and relevant this could be.
Total student loan debt in the United States is second only to mortgage debt as the largest source of indebtedness among Americans. A new survey breaks student loan debt by state and institution.
It appears that 100-degree-plus days are more frequent in a rising number of U.S. cities. Some of these temperatures and their durations are making parts of America like the hottest places in the world.
A new report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project examines the rise in labor force participation since the end of the financial crisis.
The Chinese government wants the outside world to look at tariffs by the United States as "futile." It does, however, want to talk.
Friday's Employment Situation report for July from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the most important economic reading of this week. Here's what to expect.
There is a new culprit in the greenhouse gas wars. Bitcoin and other blockchain activities use enough energy that they are a threat to lowering energy consumption.
If you were looking for a major change out of the Federal Reserve’s decision on interest rates, the August 1, 2018 announcement might not have been the best bet to look for a big…
