Economics

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has branded Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators while putting China and nine other countries on a watch list in an annual report...

Michigan public health officials expect to receive 29 percent fewer doses of Pfizer Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine next week, an unexplained drop in supplies on just the second full week of the state's mass inoculation of health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic. Lynn Sutfin, a…

John Stossel and David Henderson discuss how Canada fixed its debt problem.

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The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it will keep buying government bonds until the economy makes “substantial” progress

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For many Michigan families, mental illness and developmental disabilities are a fact of life. Their daily activities include providing high levels of personal care for a loved one and, very often, they find they can't do it all on their own.That is where our state's direct care workers come in…

The Fed could disappoint at least some market pros who are expecting immediate changes in its bond buying program.

The U.S. Postal Service predicts this week will be the busiest time of the season for mailing, shipping and delivery. It’s also turning out to be a season

Answer: 5 Years and 9 Months   Questions: Considering the cost of this Playstation 5 Bundle, do you think this is a good idea? Explain your answer. What big-ticket items or once-in-a-lifetime experiences do you think are worth spending money on? How could you reduce the amount of time required to pay off this credit card bill?

The Federal Reserve’s policymakers face an unusual conundrum as they meet this week

Imagine for a moment that your alarm goes off at 6 a.m. and it's time to go to work. But somehow you can't get out of bed. You wait. You pick up your phone and see that the person that was supposed to be your arms and your legs to get you out of bed, cleaned up and dressed and ready to make a…

German sportswear maker Adidas AG said on Monday it is considering strategic options, including a potential sale, for Reebok, 15 years after it bought the U.S.-focused brand to take on archrival Nike Inc on its home turf.

Apple announced on Tuesday that it won’t be shipping the four new iPhone 12 models with EarPods or a power adapter, as a way to prevent them from ending up in landfills. In France, however, the new devices will have earphones in the coffret, likely thanks to a quirk of local laws, as spotted by MacRumors.

Fulton County Schools is providing a temporary pay incentive to substitutes through the end of the school year.

Doctors and nurses are lauded as front-line heroes in the battle against COVID-19, but direct care workers who help people at home are a less visible and relatively unheralded part of the health care ecosystem. The pandemic magnifies their long-simmering undervaluation.Direct care workers —…

Silicon Valley has been the epicenter of the tech industry for decades, starting in 1938 when Bill Hewlett and David Packard started tinkering in a Palo Alto garage.

The annual salary needed to buy a home in the U.S. ranges from $38k to $255k, depending on the metropolitan area you are looking in.

Socialist-minded millennial heirs are trying to live their values by getting rid of their money.

Virtual assistants are one click—but often one continent—away. A new industry for bringing order to our work lives could shift the order of our workforce.

The government wants to break up the world’s biggest social network. Internal company emails show why.

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