Articles in Economy

How to Prepare Your Business for a Post-COVID-19 Economy

on September 24, 2020

Have options in place to keep your business as stable as possible and economically prepared is an essential step to keeping your business running as well as you can even when the future is so uncertain.... Read full article

Are We on the Cusp of a Global Financial Crisis?

on March 27, 2019

These are just a few thoughts regarding financial issues this world my face. ... Read full article

Origins of currencies: from jagged edges to flowers

by Ashley Wagner on March 21, 2016

A recent post on the Oxford Dictionary's OxfordWords blog explained the origins of the names of the world's most common currencies. In the slides below, find out where these everyday words come from.... Read full article

China Makes 4th Recent Cut In Interest Rate To Boost Economy

by The World Post (Image from AP) on June 29, 2015

BEIJING (AP) — China's central bank announced Saturday the fourth round of interest cuts in seven months and lower deposit-reserve ratios for some banks to lend to small and rural businesses, as Beijing tries to shore up the country's sluggish econom... Read full article

Congress plans no votes on Export-Import Bank as authorization set to run out

by Jim Spencer Star Tribune (Photo: Phoenix Solutions Co.) on June 27, 2015

No vote has been scheduled to save the 80-year-old bank, which supporters say helps businesses large and small sell abroad.... Read full article

Made in China 2025: How Beijing is revamping its manufacturing sector

by Li Hui on June 09, 2015

A look at why the Chinese government is giving manufacturing a makeover and the sectors that will be affected... Read full article

Demographics are going to cause the US economy to see decades of slower growth

by PAUL KASRIEL, on June 08, 2015

Let’s look at some of the excesses that existed before the onset of the last recession. By the way, these excesses were observable in the years leading up to the recession and financial crisis if anyone was curious enough to look at them. ... Read full article

China Cuts Rates to Halt a Slide in Its Economy

by By DAVID BARBOZA and KEITH BRADSHERMAY on May 10, 2015

SHANGHAI — Hoping to shore up a weakening economy, China said on Sunday that it would cut benchmark interest rates for the third time in five months.... Read full article

U.S. economy rebounding with solid, if unspectacular, job gains

by Dallas News on May 08, 2015

The U.S. job market rebounded in April, the government said Friday, helping to ease worries that the economy was on the brink of another extended slowdown after a bleak winter. But the growth in jobs failed to translate, once again, into any signific... Read full article

This is how China is trying to save its economy

by Matt O'Brien on May 04, 2015

China has had 35 years of hypergrowth, but now it's over. It's going to have to settle for really, really good growth instead.... Read full article