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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...
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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.
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An article from the Brookings Institution on how local infrastructure projects can have a greater impact on local communities.
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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.
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The country's economic security system developed in the manufacturing cities in the upper Midwest spread the benefits of a booming U.S. economy in the post-World War II era. Those benefits have...
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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...
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If the CBO is correct, the U.S. economy will go two decades without a recession, which is near twice any past the period.
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Wildfires continue to burn over large swathes of California and other western states. Six new large fires were reported on Saturday.
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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%.
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The Turkish economic disaster caught many of the world's global financial experts by surprise, so it is no wonder that the catastrophe has roiled the markets so badly.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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A new report from the Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project examines the rise in labor force participation since the end of the financial crisis.
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The Chinese government wants the outside world to look at tariffs by the United States as "futile." It does, however, want to talk.
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