Off The Charts: Measuring National Economies by the Arm&#8217;s Length
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The I.M.F. announced that it created a new Âfinancial indexÂ for countries, measuring the degree to which they are more Âarms lengthÂ or Ârelationship basedÂ when it comes to transactions.
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The gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output, grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the second quarter, the Commerce Department reported yesterday, revising its earlier estimate of 2.8 percent.
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The slowdown may signal that the economy is shifting down a notch from its unexpectedly robust pace of growth at the end of last year.
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Greenspan charts our economic course in 'The Age of Turbulence.' An excerpt.
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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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Forget GDP. A better metric for prosperity is Gross National Happiness. By Daniel H. Pink from Wired magazine.
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In September 1996, Alan Greenspan was fixated on a statistic neglected by most economic forecasters. It was service-sector worker productivity, a measure of how much an employee could produce in an hour.
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Trade deficit figures headline a light week for economic data.
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The first economic data to emerge since last month's credit woes suggest a modest impact on business and consumers.
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The Associated Press-Ipsos poll on the nation's economy was conducted Feb. 4-6, 2008, and is based on telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,006 adults from all states.
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AUSTIN, Texas -- Economist Lacy Hunt takes a measured view of things. That's what economists do, of course, except for the ones on television. But my regular pilgrimage to the offices of Hoisington Investment Management is a mission in grounding -- Hunt will have assembled one of the best economic chart books in the business.
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NEW YORK - The US Census Bureau publishes 12 economic indicators throughout the year. Four cover manufacturing, four deal with housing and construction, two measure retail sales and two concern trade.
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What the latest record-setting prices for modern art say about the health of the U.S. economy
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More than 60 countries were scored on factors ranging from business environment and R&#38;D efforts. How did the U.S. fare?Chart: World's top IT economies
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Common sense, Ã¦sthetics, and national character have prevailed; the forces of high modernism and weenie rationalism have received a setback.  The European Union has chosen to no longer pressure people in the British Isles to convert exclusively to the metric system.
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A cross-continent look at how far your money goes.
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Good news has been in short supply for Europe&#39;s traditional industrial economies like Germany and France. Growth remains weak, unemployment high, labor markets are still rigid and the euro is soaring, pricing their exports out of the market.