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The vast piles of dollars proposed, pending and spent to stimulate the U.S. economy must be used as an investment in the future of America and not just to bail out companies that have failed to live ...

Tess Vigeland: Congress will keep wrangling over the economic stimulus plan this week. President Barack Obama upped the pressure on lawmakers. He said the bill isn’t perfect, but that the failure to ...

My colleague Jonathan Rothwell already reviewed economist Enrico Moretti’s wonderful book, “The New Geography of Jobs,” but I wanted to jump in to highlight one particularly important point among the ...

When I was a kid in church youth group, we sang a song about a magic penny and it goes like this: “Love is like a magic penny. Hold it tight and you won’t have any. Give it away and you’ll have many…” ...

When digital tools reach SMEs in the right way, the effect multiplies: jobs grow as scale replaces subsistence, tax revenues stabilise as informality shrinks, exports rise as borders become digital ...

With the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, P.L. 112-240, taxpayers can continue to save significant taxes on qualified dividends and long-term capital gains. Excluding the special ...

Higher education in this state does not get the respect it deserves for the role colleges and universities play in powering Washington’s economy. Lawmakers meeting in special session to sort out a ...

On Thursday, April 18, the special agent in charge of the Boston Division of the FBI appeared on television to release high-definition cell-phone images captured by bystanders and examined by agents ...

The culminate effect of digital video is creating a multiplier effect, which ticks all the boxes for marketers, says Kai Henniges (pictured below), CEO and co-founder, video intelligence, in this ...

Heywood Fralin and his brother Horace grew up in Roanoke, but took divergent paths as young adults. Horace attended Virginia Tech and became a businessman, taking over his father’s Roanoke-based ...

Which takes a bigger bite out of the economy, government spending cuts or tax hikes? The chart shows the relative size of the bite that each takes out of GDP as a percentage of each dollar in cut ...