An Economy That Turns American Values Upside Down
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he Labor Department reported last week that 144,000 payroll jobs were created in August. Let&#39;s put that in perspective. The number was below market forecasts.
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A few miscalculations can wreck a lifetime of saving and investing.
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By Christopher Faille, Financial Correspondent
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Washington Post staff writer Jonathan Weisman discusses a story that looks at why the economy may not be the best predictor of the outcome in this year's presidential election.
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Rising demand, a falling dollar and rosy economic predictions, have stoked the price of commodities in the last few years. But times are changing.
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Not everyone wants the market to keep going up.
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The U.S. is heading into its first recession in a truly globalized world. Here's what to expect -- and why it will be different this time
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Americans have turned markedly gloomier about the economy in recent months, a shift that is reshaping a presidential campaign long dominated by the war in Iraq and national security concerns.
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The average American should expect to work forever.
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The United States is the richest nation on Earth, the world&#39;s biggest beneficiary of the global economy. But will it last? Not that long ago, the ``global economy&#39;&#39; meant that routine factory jobs were going overseas.
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The New Republic's website is currently carrying an interesting piece which tries to explain the anomaly that although the US economy is growing, a lot of its citizens are still feeling worse off. The article explains the results of a 40 year panel study which has shown that although mean incomes have increased, income variability has increased massively, causing many Americans to feel less well off, despite the growing economy.
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WASHINGTON - Americans are becoming increasingly glum about their economic prospects, as uncertainty over the outcome of the neck-and-neck presidential race grows.
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Some analysts see consumersâ shift toward thrift as a cultural inflection point, one with huge implications for an economy driven largely by consumer spending.
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The Census Bureauâs 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States shows an eclectic portrait of the American people.
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Innovation has become an all-purpose tonic, the default prescription for every pain associated with the retrenching American economy. Whatever the problem -- slower growth, global competition, fewer well-paying jobs -- innovating, we are told, is the solution.
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Lamps, birthday candles, mouse traps  and flip-flops. Such is the stuff that binds the modern  American family to the global economy, author Sara Bongiorni  discovers during a year of boycotting anything made in China.
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Pessimism about globalization seems downright un-American. It is also fundamentally illogical.