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Retailers are hoping for a banner holiday shopping season this year and they just might get it. Retail recovery has been inconsistent in recent months due…

The National Football League’s season ended last Sunday, but the economics of football never ends. Folks from Baltimore and a number of other cities know…

Many Americans are not even close to saving enough for retirement. A report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute recently featured by Bloomberg…

As recently reported by Bloomberg, in forty-eight U.S. states, government spending on each college student remains below where it was before the recession…

The decision to get married represents one of the most difficult ones we’ll ever make. The consequences will quite possibly last a lifetime. What’s more,…

The weekend is over. One of the things that you may have done with you moments of leisure is to take in a movie. You would not have been alone – movies…

Consumer spending has been disappointing in recent months. Many had expected that consumer spending would remain robust through the early months of twenty…

For several years, we have been patiently waiting for the economy to return to normal, whatever that means. The optimistic view is that eventually we will…

Next month, America will officially begin its seventh year of economic recovery. Despite that, there are many people who remain unenthusiastic regarding…

Given how badly the U.S. economy performed during the first three months of the year, few economists still believe that American output will climb more…

According to Yale economics professor Robert J. Shiller, perhaps best known for co-creating the Case-Shiller housing index, the housing market’s collapse…

As a reflection of a stronger housing market and improving economy, fewer Americans are falling behind on their home loans according to the American…

Sometimes, a company just gets hot. Everything they do turns into an economic winner, enriching owners in the process. Such is the story of Universal…

Apartment rents continue to climb in America. According to a new report by Zillow, renters can expect to pay thirty point two percent of their income on…

America’s homeownership rate has continued to dwindle recently. The nation’s homeownership rate fell to a 48-year low during this year’s second quarter.…

Most businesses understand the cost of everything that goes into what they sell – such knowledge is essential for setting prices. But medical centers…

Virtually everyone knows that men earn more than women on average. The question is why. Some theorize that a primary reason is that women…

There is a conventional view that income inequality has increased without interruption in America. While it is clear that income inequality remains…

Here’s the economy mystery of the day – why are wages still rising so slowly when job growth has become so formidable and the unemployment rate continues…