Russian President Vladimir Putin knows his audience: Last year, the Kremlin leader delivered a provocative address to the Russian parliament boasting of new weaponry, complete with a video animation that showed a Russian nuclear attack on Florida.
The market is rallying this year. But investors may be ignoring a few risks that could bring trouble in the year ahead.
The Sears brand, once the mightiest in retail, is only worth a fraction of what it once was.
Shoppers at a Giant Food supermarket in an affluent part of Washington, D.C. last week could find a 6.4-ounce tube of Crest Whitening toothpaste for $2.09, two loaves of Nature's Own Honey Wheat bread for $5, and a pound of gala apples for $1.79.
Famed hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio fears the world today looks an awful lot like it did before World War II.
With New York and California planning to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour, a local economy expert and business discuss the implications.
The UW-La Crosse economics department is trying to get its students to think beyond the numbers.
Economists are hoping that as Republicans take over both houses the endless conflict in Washington will come to an end.
