The United States derives competitive advantages from its hegemonic position, and globalization allows it to exploit these advantages, attracting economic activity and manipulating the international system to its benefit. More »
New York City and Abilene, Texas, are both classified as major cities, though they're drastically different in a couple of ways. More »
We have highlighted the five regions that are most poised to flourish and help boost the national economy. More »
People are still seeking work in traditional markets, like Germany or Canada. But new, surprising flows are taking place in this post-recession, rocky recovery era. The shift promises to create new types of diasporas. Here is the world that was, as told through key flows in labour migration... More »
Despite 2011 declines, the SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard shows positives for 2012 More »
For the first time in many years, manufacturing stands out as an area of strength in the American economy. More »
Various cities are trying to attract more talent and incentives to meet demands of the life science industry. More »
The survey finds that despite lower economic confidence, U.S. CFOs are largely holding firm on employment and hiring projections, research and development spending, new borrowing, and other activities that drive both day-to-day operations and future growth. More »
Based on 80,289 Interstate and Cross-Border Household Goods Relocations from January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011. More »
China could lose advantage over U.S. in five years if freight rates rise 5 percent annually More »
Because technology and energy sectors have been experiencing strong growth lately, leasing demand in such cities should begin to fall in line with supply. The outperformers will likely include San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, Oklahoma City and Pittsburgh. More »
As we head into 2012, uncertainty continues to bedevil the U.S. economy, but a local executive who tracks a wide range of business sectors across the country sees good things on the horizon. More »
An interview with Doug Oberhelman, chairman and CEO of Caterpillar Inc., about the company's future, including plans for a new plant. More »
As consumers, we don’t care if our products are invented in the U.S. or in some other country. But as a work force, we should. More »
The last time I.B.M. broke out its American payroll numbers was in 2008, for the previous five years. From 2003 through 2007, the company’s worldwide employment grew by 21 percent to 386,558, while the head count in the United States declined 11 percent to 120,589. More »
Morning Stretches at Duke Energy, Ice Packs at Harley-Davidson; Firms Adjust to Aging Employees More »
Interest rates are at the lowest levels in decades, but commercial property owners looking to refinance shouldn't expect to lock in those rates any longer. More »
California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Maryland have had to find ways to deal with lower funding and attract more firms. More »
Employment services firm ManpowerGroup surveyed more than 18,000 employers in 100 metropolitan areas to find out who’s hiring, who’s firing and who plans to maintain their current staff levels in the first quarter of 2012, January through March. Here are the cities where employers are most optimistic about hiring this fall. More »
Our policy toward the world's best and brightest is currently: "Welcome! Enjoy this expensive education. Now go home!" Does that make any sense? More »
Along with the oft-pronounced, desperately wished for death of the suburbs, no demographic narrative thrills the mainstream news media more than the decline of the Sun Belt, the country’s southern rim extending from the Carolinas to California. More »
INSEAD professor Soumitra Dutta’s Global Innovation Index helps show which nations are on the rise and which are not. More »
Bankruptcies, plummeting stock prices and crushing debt loads are calling into question the viability of an industry that since the 1970s has been counted on to advance the U.S.—and the world—into a new energy age. More »
Information technology is reducing the need for certain jobs faster than new ones are being created. More »
