Economics

Too little, and people tend to get stressed. Too much, and people tend to feel idle.

Americans say it takes an average net worth of $2.27 million to be considered "wealthy." Here's how much money U.S. families actually have at every age.

The state's Pure Michigan program subsidizes a tourism industry by running expensive advertisements out of state in order to lure tourists to Michigan. Research shows the program is expensive and ineffective. It's also unfair and may be undermining attempts to control the COVID-19 pandemic. The…

Some researchers and economists say a minimum wage raise will likely benefit workers in Mich., while opponents argue that small businesses may suffer

Many economists would agree that the official U.S. unemployment rate is an inadequate measure of actual labor market conditions. Although this is one of the most cited pieces of data on the economy as a whole, not many people understand how this indicator is calculated and who is and – more importantly – who isn’t included in it. The latest data, which found that joblessness fell from 6.7% in December to 6.3% in January, shows why.

Jeff Bezos is retiring, and will go down as one of the great CEO’s in tech history, in part because of how he transformed Amazon into a tech company in every respect.

In 1969, an activist set out to build an African-American metropolis from scratch. What would have happened if Soul City had succeeded?

The struggles that afflicted the job market since the viral pandemic tore through the economy nearly a year ago are keeping a tight lid on hiring

Ford will cut the number of shifts at the factories that produce its best-selling F-Series trucks for one week due to the global semiconductor chip shortage affecting the auto industry.

This year isn't turning out to be all bad. Peeps are back in production.

PayPal Holdings Inc beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit on Wednesday, with a coronavirus-driven shift to online shopping and digital transactions driving record levels of payment volumes for both the quarter and the year.

Pfizer expects to earn approximately $15 billion in revenue from its Covid-19 vaccine this year, the company said Tuesday.

The breakthrough hinged design is made to be more accessible to everyone.

The deal vaults the seven-year-old start-up past many of the industry's longtime leaders in the race to become the Uber or AirBnb of private aviation.

GM will idle three assembly plants in North America for one week due to the ongoing semiconductor shortage that has already hit Ford and Stellantis.

America's appetite for chicken wings appears unending and restaurant chains of all sorts are rushing to feed it.It might seem impossible, but the pandemic actually made one of the country's favorite menu items even more popular. After governments forced restaurants to close and curtail indoor…

With demand for COVID-19 vaccines outpacing the world's supplies, a frustrated public and policymakers want to know: How can we get more? A lot more. Right away.The problem: "It's not like adding more water to the soup," said vaccine specialist Maria Elena Bottazzi of Baylor College of Medicine…

When administrators at Hillsdale College, a conservative liberal-arts school, heard its local hospital didn't have a way to store the Pfizer-BioNTech covid vaccine, they offered the use of its science department's ultra-low temperature freezer. The vaccine must be stored at minus 94 degrees…

The frenzy also extended to physical demand for the metal, with coin dealers reporting delays in deliveries as they were overwhelmed by demand

GameStop stock rose more than 1600% in two days. Stephanie Ruhle explains how amateur day traders on the Wall Street Bets subreddit bought GameStop stock en masse in response to hedge funds shorting the stock.

Bad economies usually hurt both workers and investors. Only the first part has been true this time.

The Commerce Department says the U.S. economy grew just 1% in the last three months of the year, as a rise in coronavirus infections weighed on in-person businesses like restaurants.

Tesla posted its first full year of net income in 2020 -- but not because of sales to its customers.

Brady has a large incentive waiting for him with a Super Bowl victory

Metro Detroiters craving crispy chicken lined up by the dozens in Shelby Township and Northville on Thursday, as two new Chick-fil-A restaurants opened for the first time.

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