ThinkstockThe Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) is a put together by a regional Federal Reserve branch, but the focus is on the national trends as a whole. While it looks backward for a…
The U.S. Labor Department is out with another solid report on weekly jobless claims. There remains a debate about whether the large growth in payrolls is over.
Almost every report of ocean temperatures indicates that they have risen in the past decade, although the process may have slowed very considerably.
Glassdoor has come up with a list of 25 jobs that have a good "work-life balance," as its researchers see it.
Apparently, Americans are worried enough about their jobs that many go to work sick. Better to be sick than out of a job.
A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that excessive alcohol use damages the economy at the rate of nearly $250 billion a year.
For the first time since the Great Recession, China's economy rose less that 7%. In the first three quarters, the number was 6.9%.
The University of Michigan's latest report on consumer sentiment offers a preliminary view for October, and it actually came with a significant upside surprise.
Weak exports continue to plague industries in America, and a weak oil sector only means ever more weakness to be expected from the U.S. energy sector, which had been such a bright spot.
If Detroit's leadership does not begin to talk about its problems regularly, and in the open, the city cannot begin to set intelligent plans to solve those problems.
It is hard on the surface to consider that a U.S. budget deficit of nearly $439 billion for the U.S. government's fiscal year 2016 is good news.
September's Consumer Price Index (CPI) was weak enough that consumers can consider it deflationary.
Wednesday brought up a U.S. Census Bureau report on business inventories for the month of August.
The markets are supposed to like periods of low inflation. Deflation is another animal entirely.
If you were hoping that the weakness in the September payrolls report from the U.S. Labor Department was going to be a one-month outlier, a new report from TrimTabs indicates that this may not…