Unemployment Rate Drops To Below 8% The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the latest batch of unemployment numbers and the jobs report, and it seems like things might be finally starting to look up. Think Progress...

Just when you thought it was all good. 25 Shot In Chicago Over The Weekend Via HuffingtonPost Twenty-five people were wounded in gun violence over the weekend in Chicago amid news that the city’s homicide rate in...

Mike Barrett | NaturalSociety Based on findings presented in a report titled U.S. Health in International Perspectives: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, Americans have a higher chance of dying from all causes than people living in 16 other developed nations. Further, the United...

National home prices were up 5.9 percent year-over-year in 2012, according to Zillow’s latest real estate market report. This was the largest annual gain since August 2006, and home prices were up for five straight quarters.  Meanwhile,...

* Price controls helped keep inflation in check * Currency devaluation seen spurring inflation in 2013 CARACAS, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Venezuelan inflation reached 19.9 percent in 2012, the central bank said in a preliminary estimate on...

Early this year when I wrote The Housing Bottom is Here and Housing: The Two Bottoms, I pointed out there are usually two bottoms for housing: the first for new home sales, housing starts and residential investment,...

Greece’s unemployment rate climbed to 23.1 percent in May, up from 22.6 percent in April. The youth unemployment rate is sitting at a jaw-dropping 54.9 percent. No one is really surprised by the most troubled country in...

TheEconomicCollapse Did you know that a smaller percentage of Americans are working today than when the last recession supposedly ended?  But you won’t hear about this on the mainstream news.  Instead, the mainstream media obsesses over the...

China’s final HSBC manufacturing PMI climbed to 49.3 in July from 48.2 reading in June. However, this fell short of the  49.5 “Flash,” or preliminary, number, which economists consider to be a reliable forecast for the final...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s inflation fell to a 29-month low in June, giving Beijing more room to fight a deepening economic slowdown. Consumer prices rose 2.2 percent over a year earlier, down from May’s 3 percent, government...