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Congressional Budget Office predicts slower economic growth and 4.7% unemployment into...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Congressional Budget Office reported Wednesday that economic and job growth so far this year has been stronger than forecast in February, but...

U.S. revises down last quarter’s economic growth to 2.7% rate 

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.7% annual rate from October through December, a solid showing despite rising interest rates and...

U.S. slightly revises up its GDP estimate for Q4 to 7%

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. economy ended 2021 by expanding at a brisk 7% annual pace from October through December, the government reported Thursday...

Put a stop to economic growth? Huge mistake

One of the more pernicious ideas now coming into vogue is that societies should voluntarily halt their economic growth. In a recent New Yorker...
THE U.S. ECONOMY expanded at a 2.1% annualized rate in the 2019 second quarter, driven in large part by increased consumer spending. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL NAGLE

U.S. growth slows to 2.1% as trade tensions weigh on businesses

WASHINGTON – U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter by less than forecast as consumer spending topped estimates, though weaker business investment and exports...

Manufacturing replaced by … a museum

My wife and I recently spent two nights in North Adams, an old industrial city in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, at a lodging...
WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? Did Gov. Gina M. Raimondo's economic policies help grow Rhode Island's economy or was the state's improving economic condition just the result of the region and nation recovering from the Great Recession? To a certain degree, the just-concluded election may offer one answer to that question. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

With the election now settled, do you think that Rhode Island...

A major issue in any election is the economic health of the city/state/country that is holding the vote, and nowhere was the issue debated...
THE PROVIDENCE METRO AREA posted slow but steady growth in all three categories of the Brooking's Institution's Inclusive Growth Index between 2015 and 2016, just one of 11 metros to do so in that time frame. / COURTESY BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

Report: Providence metro posts all-around improvement on Inclusive Growth Index

PROVIDENCE – The Providence-Warwick-Fall River metropolitan area ranked No. 71 among the 100 largest metros in the nation for economic growth from 2015 to...
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