While Russia is no economic heavyweight, it’s hardly an unimportant economic player. Not only does Russia have the world’s 11th largest economy (for the moment), it’s a massive global producer of oil ...

The rising PMI data and job growth signal economic expansion and reduced recession fears. Click here to read what investors need to know.

Each of the twelve economic freedoms within these categories is graded on a scale of 0 to 100. A country’s overall score is derived by averaging these twelve economic freedoms, with equal weight being ...

Last Thursday LinkedIn unveiled its plan to build the world's first economic graph. Its building blocks, for now, will come from the data and data exhaust of its members as they create and maintain ...

Long before the invention of modern day maps or gunpowder, the planet’s major powers were already duking it out for economic and geopolitical supremacy. Today’s chart tells that story in the simplest ...

Nineteenth-century writer Frédéric Bastiat, in his classic “Broken Window” parable, warned that economic thinking requires us to see what isn’t happening as well as what is. This yield curve chart ...

Today most Americans are completely obsessed with the silliest of things. They wonder how Lindsay Lohan is going to fare in jail and they agonize over who LeBron James is going to play basketball for.

Below is the most important graph in economic policy right now. Courtesy of the Economic Policy Institute, it's the portion of newly hired people each month who weren't even looking for work the month ...

About 70% of U.S. GDP growth comes from consumer spending. And this spending can basically be broken into two categories — goods and services. A good is an item — a couch, a car, a shirt. A service is ...

Move over, U.S. economy: The real action in global forecasting these days lies in figuring out what is happening in the world’s second largest economic powerhouse, China. Wall Street is increasingly ...