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There is a good trend happening for average household income. It's going up, and that marks the third straight year.
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A new report from Transparency International indicates that more than half the value of all international trade comes from 33 countries where anti-bribery laws receive little or no enforcement.
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Better late than never. A group of businesses has launched an initiative called "Tariffs Hurt the Heartland."
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Small business owners are more optimistic than ever. The National Federation of Independent Businesses reported Tuesday morning the highest optimism reading in the 45-year history of the group's...
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Hurricane Florence could cause a storm surge that would damage almost 760,000 homes across the Carolinas and Virginia.
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Nearly half of Americans won't be paying any federal income tax this year.
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August nonfarm payroll growth came in better than expected while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.9%. Wages increased as well, but June and July job growth was cut by a combined total of...
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With inflation continuing to run at a low rate and unemployment also at multi-decade lows, a well-known economic indicator--the Phillips Curve--works its way into many stories about today's economy....
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The list of nations with troubled economies has grown in 2018, and these are just eight of the nations in which interest rates or inflation have become sky high.
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U.S. spending on new construction reached a seasonally adjusted annual level of $1.3 trillion in July, including a year-over-year increase of 6% in private residential construction.
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Personal spending more or less matched personal income gains in July. What stands out here is that the changes to prior years look much stronger on the surface, particularly when you look at the...
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Wednesday's economic reporting brought the first revision to second-quarter gross domestic product.
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Results of a new study of firearm-related deaths were published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Just six countries accounted for half the total in 2016 with Brazil and the...
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The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose to a near 18-year high in August as consumers assessment of current business and job market conditions continued to improve.
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A number of studies have shown that air pollution causes deaths in large Chinese cities. More recent research shows another damaging result.
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