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Economics would be much easier if it didn’t involve the study of people. While economic theory often revolves around the critical assumption that people…

Since 2008, the year during which investment bank Lehman Brothers faltered and home prices collapsed, there has been a steady increase in the number of…

Buses have an image problem. Transit agencies around the country are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new rail infrastructure that is often no…

Despite calls for equality for women emerging from Hollywood and other corners of the world, the fact of the matter is that American women have been…

Five years ago, the University of Phoenix, America’s largest for-profit university, reported an enrollment of approximately four hundred and sixty…

For a number of years, the fastest economic growth was taking place in states located toward the center of the country. Oil producing states like North…

One thing that many Americans seem to agree upon is that the nation’s middle class is shrinking. But not many people can actually define who is and who is…

When the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the nation added two hundred and eighty thousand jobs in May, much focus was given to that headline…

For many years now, Americans have heard that the performance of their economy can be characterized as lackluster. It appears that more Americans have…

Many stories have emerged recently indicating that increasingly we are a nation of freelancers participating in the sharing economy. The stories indicate…

Economists and others are accustomed to receiving economic data from government agencies, non-governmental organizations and business associations – now…

With apartment rents rising, more households are finding that their monthly rent check is eating up more than a majority of their paycheck. According to a…

America’s inability to invest sufficiently and regularly in its infrastructure costs us in many ways, including in the form of diminished student…

Conventional wisdom suggests that income growth remains very slow in America. This helps explain why the Federal Reserve maintains such aggressive…

The U.S. economic recovery, now in its seventy fourth month, is set to continue. There have been longer periods of consistent growth in America’s economic…

As indicated by writer Josh Mitchell, jet fuel prices have declined by nearly thirty five percent over past year, roughly tracking the decline in oil…

A four-year drought has gripped California. The drought has altered life in the Golden State by forcing severe cutbacks in water for farms, homeowners and…

Canada is in recession. The Canadian economy shrank for a second consecutive time during the second quarter according to Statistics Canada, putting…

Uber is an app. One can press a button on his or her smartphone and within a few moments someone will happen by to take them where they want. That’s…

Americans are collectively getting wealthier. Rising home values produced a modest increase in total American household wealth during the second quarter…