Alternative gauges are helping to shed light on the precarious position of the economy with the publication of official data frozen by the government shutdown. Economic data on inflation and ...

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Apollo Global Chief Economist Torsten Slok identified 40 economic reports from private data sources that investors can use to gauge the economy during the government shutdown. The shutdown is expected ...

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This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Alex Ossola: If I met you at a cocktail party and I asked you how the US economy ...

Cooperative governance refers to the systems of membership-based decision-making, ownership and control that distinguish cooperatives from investor-owned firms. In alternative economic models, ...

After the global financial crisis of 2008, Hungary’s Fidesz government was one of the first to adopt a partially heterodox, national-conservative set of economic policies. It was to become a role ...

In 1991, long before Lawrence Summers claimed, while president of Harvard, that women were innately disinclined toward science, he served as chief economist of the World Bank. In this capacity, too, ...

The Las Vegas Strip. Las Vegas makes up a big part of Nevada's economy.John Locher/AP Since the early 2000s, a fall in employment in Nevada has preceded a broader U.S. recession. The economic fortunes ...