What can a state government do to decrease energy consumption among a population that has doubled since 1970 but maintains the lowest per-capita rate of electricity use in the country? That's right:

Despite ballooning Fed reserves to bail out banks, money supply -- as measured by the growth in money supply with a zero maturity (MZM) (notes and coins, check accounts, savings deposits, and money-m

Forget the statistical analysis, chatter from the guru of the minute, and the price of oil or gold, because we’re in a Mother Goose economy.The author of nursery rhymes summed up our current fi

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Social Mood Fuels the China Bull"China, despite its 5,000-year burden of history, has emerged as a dynamo of optimism, experimentation and growth," enthuses a Time magazine piece about Chin

In what should be no surprise, banks are cutting back on small business loans. Please consider CNN Money's Small business loans: $10 billion evaporates.  Eight months after President Obama bega

No one goes into Walmart (WMT) and asks to pay extra sales tax. Thus sales taxes are reasonable barometers for retail sales. This week we look at how taxes are doing in a period of economic recovery.

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In case you needed more evidence that an economic recovery is far from imminent, it’s here.Consumers, buffeted by unemployment or fear of job loss and a tightening of credit, aren’t yet r

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