The Economy Looks a Lot Like Pizza
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The recent problems of Dominoâs Pizza speak volumes about the challenges facing both companies and consumers in the year ahead.
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Analysis: The Fed and Treasury join forces to explain the state of the U.S. economy.
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The economy is much stronger than the government reports, plus stocks are in short supply.
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Even when experts were declaring the economy healthy, many Americans voiced a vague, but persistent dissatisfaction. True, jobs were relatively plentiful over the last few years. It was easy to borrow and very cheap. The sharp rise in the value of homes and plentiful credit cards encouraged a nation of consumers to get out and buy. But to many people, something didn't feel right, even if they couldn't quite explain why.
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Shoppers, the driving force of the US economy, splashed out with unexpected vigor in October as the job market showed signs of a revival, a government report showed.
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At the risk of repeating ourselves, it is worth bearing in mind that this recovery has been different from other recoveries. While much of the attention paid to the economy has focused on the sluggish jobs
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Cheese sandwiches and pizzas may no longer be a cheap snack. A combination of freakish weather and runaway global demand for milk is sending the price of cheese soaring.
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We may be in a recession, but there's a lot of economic-development money out there. Go get it.
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It's a challenging sector, but this restaurant stock is serving up an appetizing investing opportunity.
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A chicken in every pot. More open space and more affordable housing. The benefits of free trade without outsourcing. More manna from Washington, to be financed by that other guy behind the tree.
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Like baseball or the weather, the economy can be a difficult thing to predict. Nonetheless, hereâs a sampling of what economists expect for 2008.
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With recession looming, there are pitfalls and opportunities.
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Robust consumer spending on cars,  furniture and food in the third quarter helped the U.S.   economy advance more quickly than first thought, a government  report showed on Tuesday, while underlying inflation was the  tamest in decades.
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The odds have grown that the economy will slip into a recession. At the beginning of last year, many economists put that chance at less than 1-in-3; now an increasing number says it has climbed to around 50-50
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A growing number of top economists believe that the U.S. economy has now toppled into recession.
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Commodities rise to record levels on demand, dollar depreciation.
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Robust consumer spending on cars, furniture and food helped the US economy advance faster than first thought in the third quarter, a government report showed, while underlying inflation was the tamest in decades.