Tag: Economy
Health care still eating the economy
Health care costs are not as much in the news nowadays. A big reason might be that cost growth has slowed in recent years....
Americans souring on economy
As Americans become more negative about the state of their society, a number of people have tried to cheer them up by reminding them...
U.S. choosing slow economic growth
It worked in the 1990s: The U.S. economy continued to grow strongly for several years even after it showed signs of capacity constraints and...
Five Questions With Robert E. Johnson
Robert E. Johnson | Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
1. In your April inaugural address, you spoke about creating a workforce that is ready...
Big companies are in control
A recent report by Goldman Sachs’ global research team highlights a new study showing that large, dominant, superstar companies are paying lower wages and...
Remember what causes a recession
Remember recessions? Those times where the stock market goes down, unemployment goes up and businesses stop investing? There was a really big one about...
Ten years after the economy fell apart
The last recession was deemed after the fact to have begun in December 2007. It’s more accurate to say that the previous economic recovery...
The big picture
Do you believe the national economy will improve, stay the same or decline over the next 12 months?
Stay the same 57.1%
Improve 28.6%
Decline 14.3%
Do you...
Pressure on households grows
Is the U.S. economy enjoying a honeymoon, or is this merely a hiatus? Although this isn’t a subject of discussion among most economists, there...
Cut corporate taxes to boost growth
Like so many things in Washington, the debate over the effects of cutting the corporate tax rate has become too hot for its own...