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While the timing of the planned forum is not ideal, it continues a long tradition of Chinese leaders engaging with US tech leaders and may prove beneficial to overall relations.
The Fed’s policy-setting committee decided to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged. Here’s why that’s the wrong call.
Market speculation on whether the Fed will raise rates is reaching fever pitch, but the central bank no longer has the pull it once did.
Republicans’ problem with the pope is not that he’s too liberal on issues such as capitalism, it’s that he’s too conservative.
The more important question is when the federal government will get in the game and help support the economy.
The ‘linear economy’ that drove 20th-century leaps in wealth is no longer sustainable, and our standard of living will not survive without a dramatic redesign.
Two-thirds of released prisoners in the US are arrested again within three years. Here’s how we could change that.
Research shows baby booms are generally bad news for the economy – at least for the boom’s babies.
A significant share of the workforce wakes up every day without knowing at what time they’ll work – or even if they will earn anything at all.
The most radical reinvention of work since the rise of industrialization is upon us, as more of us drift toward app-enabled self-employment.
The US may be closer than people think to a deal over geographical indications, laws that protect products based on their location such as Champagne, Darjeeling tea and prosciutto di Parma.
The chorus chanting ‘America needs a raise!’ will undoubtedly grow as Labor Day approaches. They’re not wrong, but America needs more than that.
Back in 2001, a Goldman Sachs economist said Brazil, Russia, India and China would become the powerhouses of the global economy in the coming decades. Is that still in the cards?
A plan to disclose the names of corporate auditors has its flaws, but it comes with a rule that will help investors determine how well a company is being audited.
Alexander Hamilton and the policies he pursued as America’s first treasury secretary set the US on a course of national unity. That’s just what Europe needs today.
Perhaps the world’s most famous index dropped 1,000 points in a matter of minutes Monday as part of an ongoing global stocks sell-off. What does that mean for you and me?
Elon Musk of Tesla Motors wants to build an affordable, mass-market electric car. What can Tesla learn from another auto innovator – Henry Ford?
The data tell the story: mobile ads work.
China’s interventions to cheapen its currency relative to others will hurt US imports in the short term, but the country’s surging “mainstream” will easily offset the impact.
Disputes over intellectual property and car parts are emerging as last-minute hurdles as negotiators race to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership ahead of elections.
Estimates of how much of Iran’s frozen assets it will get once sanctions are lifted vary widely, but the sum is most likely just a fraction of the total.
The July employment report suggests the recent trend of lackluster gains in jobs and wages is continuing, and a rate hike should therefore be off the table for the time being.
Studies show sexualized advertising often isn’t effective, and may even have adverse consequences for the product being promoted.
The Justice Department is investigating whether airlines are colluding over airfares, but high prices may simply be a consequence of industry consolidation.