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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LinkedIn — the professionally-oriented social networking platform that’s being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion — has made a play to build what it refers to as “the economic graph“, a concept ...

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 ...