Elections are over, politicians continue to bicker, and Greece insists on furthering their already impressive implosion. Thanksgiving may help if it can bring to mind those seminal American values that are the foundation and bedrock of our country.

Breaking news about the economy, everybody: It still stinks. The good news? At least we're not in another recession. Some of you may think we never...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Labor Department posted sensitive economic data on its website before Thursday's scheduled release time. A...

The breakdown of S&P 500 returns by sector is once again telling us something. This time the breakdown is confirming what the incoming economic data over the past several weeks has been saying all along: global economic growth is slowing.

It's almost that time again, America: We're less than 24 hours away from the latest jobs report, which could help decide the 2012 presidential electio...

Few people know the true origins of the tradition of getting high at 4:20, but everybody needs to know seven and a half things each day. Here they are...

President Obama has bet a second term on selling an economic comeback. A big truckload of economic data released today suggests he's not losing that b...

If yesterday's economic numbers were tasty but small potatoes, today's are a little more like a balanced meal. This morning's batch of economic data, ...

WASHINGTON (Lucia Mutikani) - The economy showed signs it maintained speed into the fourth quarter as retail sales increased in October and a gaug...

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy is so bad that the chance of avoiding a double dip back into recession may actually be pretty good. The sectors of ...

One of the greatest themes around the economic blogsphere is the government is manipulating the numbers to make things look better than they are. However, this is an easily debunked claim.

Economist and president of a research firm that bears his name, Andrew Smithers (not related to the Smithers of Mr. Burns fame) is saying our on-fire ...

For all its influence, economics doesn't really have much to say about something as fundamental (and yes, complex) as the relationship between the size of the financial sector and growth in the real economy.

NEW YORK — Wall Street ended the calmest session in recent memory with a narrowly mixed performance Monday as investors largely looked past a we...