<ul><li>Well, it won’t — and things may never be the same. </li><li>Even when the economy picks up, three underlying trends mean the U.S. might never use as much gas again: </li><li>New standards for cars and light …
<ul><li>THE Bank of England is expected to keep its efforts to boost the money supply on hold this week despite recent feeble economic growth.</li><li>Policymakers are expected to freeze quantitative easing at Pounds 200bn, whil…
<ul><li>SOMETIMES you wonder what planet the men who run our major banks live on.</li><li>Despite the banks almost bringing the country to its knees by reckless lending, union leaders have informed Holyrood’s Economy Committee t…
<ul><li>HONG KONG – Asian stocks extended their slump Monday as last year’s rally showed more signs of petering out.</li><li>Investors took little comfort in U.S. figures released Friday that showed the world’s largest economy g…
<ul><li>Jan. 31–As expected in the midst of a tough economy, jobs were a major topic of discussion at Saturday’s Third House sponsored by the Logansport Cass County Chamber of Commerce. </li><li>Rich McClain and Doug Gutwein di…
We’re probably overdue in updating our periodic "How’s the Economy Doing" series, although we did include economic data in our "Which Way from Here?" presentation the other week. Below, we briefly share some data from The Port of Lo…
<ul><li>Jan. 31–The running numbers on the worst job crisis since the Great Depression have become the new national boxscore. </li><li>Even those with cursory interest in the economy are aware the national unemployment rate sto…
<ul><li>Jan. 31–St. Louis has been losing factory jobs for a long time, but the first decade of the 21st century is when our industrial age really drew to a close. </li><li>The cold, hard fact, though, is that St. Louis lost on…
The trillion dollar question for the financial markets is whether or not the global economy is strong enough to accept the hand-off from central bank and government stimulus. After 15+ years trading the financial markets we have found only one statemen…
<ul><li>Jan. 31–As lawmakers wrestled with health care reform during the last year, many investors passed on medical technology stocks. </li><li>Med-tech stocks are poised to outperform the overall market this year, according t…