This shift in economic activity has been decades in the making ... In addition to lower levels of economic freedom, Northeast states have worse business tax climates and higher tax burdens.

They foresee a 0.2 percentage point drag on first-quarter growth assuming that is not offset by rebuilding-related activity ... was already a heightened level of economic uncertainty with ...

And when economic activity is low, firms reduce their workforce and unemployment ... But the inflexibility of wages does not fully explain the perennial nature of unemployment. Some level of ...

The Federal Reserve is a bit more upbeat about the economy than it was six weeks ago. In its policy statement, released after its two days of discussions, officials described both economic activity ...

And the cycle continues. How to then go about dealing with these alternate periods of high and low levels of economic activity? The remedy - well, no revelation - lies in an export-led and FDI ...

Released at the same time, the ISM Services Purchasing Managers Index, a monthly gauge of the level of economic activity in the services sector, came in at 54.1 for December, overshooting ...