Consumers not spending like drunken sailors

The economy is heading nowhere fast. That's the bad news. But the good news is that it still seems like consumers may have actually learned a lesson or two about reckless fiscal behavior.

2010-07-30 09:36 / read more

 

U.S. recovery sputters

The U.S. economy continued to grow during the second quarter, the government reported Friday. But the pace slowed more than economists were expecting, raising concern about growth - or even another recession - in the months ahead.

2010-07-30 09:52 / read more

 

Pay gap persists for African-Americans

African-American workers continue to earn far less than whites, according to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

2010-07-30 06:55 / read more

 

China says it tops Japan as No. 2 economy

China has surpassed Japan to become the world's second largest economy, lagging only behind the United States, a Chinese government official said in remarks published on Friday.

2010-07-30 12:11 / read more

 

States go deeper into debt

The states are broke, and like many consumers, they're borrowing big time to get out of their fiscal binds.

2010-07-30 09:34 / read more

 

What's so scary about Elizabeth Warren?

Elizabeth Warren doesn't look or sound scary. She's a 61-year-old Harvard Law School professor from Oklahoma who has written personal finance books, some with her daughter.

2010-07-30 03:27 / read more

 

Jobless claims slide in latest week

The number of Americans filing for initial unemployment insurance fell last week, the government said Thursday.

2010-07-29 06:18 / read more

 

New Wall Street rules pit SEC vs. the media

One of Wall Street reform's littlest known provisions is getting big attention for giving a government agency a possible loophole for avoiding journalists' requests for information.

2010-07-29 10:09 / read more

 

Building your brand (and keeping your job)

Scott Monty's personal brand doesn't take a back seat to anyone else's -- not even that of Ford Motor Co., his employer. "I'm not somebody who can be accused of using Ford's brand to benefit my own," says Monty, the car giant's first global digital and multimedia communications manager. "If anything, the opposite is true."

2010-07-30 01:19 / read more

 

Obama vs. Big Business

Corporate chiefs may seem hardboiled, but they can be sensitive, too. Take the ruckus they've been raising over what they perceive to be rough treatment from the Obama White House.

2010-07-29 05:22 / read more

 

California workers stiffed again

California's 200,000 state workers just can't catch a break.

2010-07-28 18:27 / read more

 

Foreclosures climb in 75% of metro areas

Foreclosure filings climbed in 75% of the nation's metro areas during the first half of 2010, according to a report issued Thursday.

2010-07-29 00:34 / read more

 

Cities threaten to cut 500,000 jobs

Cash-strapped cities and counties have been cutting jobs to cope with massive budget shortfalls -- and that tally could edge up to nearly 500,000 if Congress doesn't step up to help.

2010-07-28 11:12 / read more

 

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An economy consists of the realized economic system of a country or other area, the labor, capital and land resources, and the economic agents that socially participate in the production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and services of that area. A given economy is the end result of a process that involves its technological evolution, history and social organization, as well as its geography, natural resource endowment, and ecology, as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions.

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