Extreme poverty remains a worldwide social and economic scourge. According to a report from the World Bank and UNICEF, 767 million people around the world live on less than $1.90 per day — a…
The Federal Reserve has released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee from September. It was already known that three votes had been cast to raise interest rates. Those are the hawks. What…
The U.S. Treasury just held a 10-year Treasury Note auction, and this was going to be a highly watched auction. After all, U.S. interest rates have ticked higher almost daily now to the point…
The number of opinions on the value of a particular home remodeling project is at least as large as the number of remodeling projects homeowners might want to tackle. One constant, though, is how…
If you have been following the Labor Department's monthly payrolls and unemployment reports, you probably realized that the endless strength of the jobs market is now looking a bit less strong.
The National Federation of Independent Business Tuesday morning reported that its small business optimism index for September remains well below the index's 42-year average.
The National Retail Federation expects candy sales in the United States to reach more than $2 billion for this coming Halloween.
Sometimes it is best to reflect on economic numbers a couple of days after the fact. Friday’s unemployment and payrolls report from the Department of Labor showed that nonfarm payrolls rose by 156,000 in September. Some…
Hurricane Matthew has killed hundreds of people in Haiti, swamped parts of cities up and down the Florida and Georgia coasts, and left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate ticked up in September due to a rise in workers and the size of the labor force.
A bad business climate is likely one of the reasons commercial bankruptcy filings are about 28% higher through the first nine months of the this year.
This week’s economic news is likely to turn toward Hurricane Matthew on Friday, but the broader economic reading on the Employment Situation from the Department of Labor is going to likely be the main…
The inverse relationship between prices and yields translates to one serious issue for bond holders: the value of those bonds they bought before recent days is dropping as yields rise.
A fresh report from the Freelancers Union now shows that nearly 55 million Americans are freelancing. If you tally this up against Labor Department data, it means more than a third of the work…
By late Thursday, Hurricane Matthew is expected to punch the Atlantic coast of Florida as a Category 4 storm with winds of up to 155 mph.
