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10 Cities With The Biggest Population Change In The 2010s
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 - 12:04pm | 458U.S. population growth slowed from an annual average of 0.97% in the 2000s to 0.66% in the 2010s, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Natural increase — the extent to which births outpaced deaths — accounted for more growth than did immigration, but both metrics weakened year-by-year....
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Where The Robots Are: Which Cities And States Lead The March Of The Automatons?
Tuesday, August 29, 2017 - 10:53am | 447The Rust Belt is rapidly becoming the domain of industrial robots, with Michigan being home to a staggering 12 percent of the nation’s automated workforce. In terms of pure density, Detroit and another Michigan city, Grand Rapids, trail only Toledo just over the Ohio border as the Big Three...
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Fed Facts: What Is The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet, And Why Does It Need To Shrink?
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 - 8:16am | 706In the Federal Reserve's current tightening campaign, the Federal Open Market Committee has looked into shrinking the central bank’s balance sheet. The median dealer expects the FOMC to allow the balance sheet to begin shrinking in the second quarter of 2018, according to the March survey...
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Military-Industrial Complexities: Who Wins A Modern War Between The US And Russia?
Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 1:56pm | 1244There is an undeniable rivalry, a parallel sense of petulant pride between two countries with a grudge. Some people are even asking the unspeakable: Could the United States beat Russia in a fair fight, no nukes allowed? The answer is...maybe. Revelations about President Donald Trump’s back-...
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Fintech Entrepreneur Nate Richardson Rinses Off The Soot Of The Deal In War Zones
Thursday, April 6, 2017 - 8:20am | 1309So what if investment in the hot financial tech movement dropped $2 billion in each of the past two years? Pardon Trading Ticket, Inc. co-founder Nathan Richardson if he doesn’t lose his cool. He risked his life doing humanitarian work in war zones, even got captured once, and was forced out...
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Sonny Perdue Wins Cabinet Endorsement From 669 Agricultural Organizations
Sunday, February 5, 2017 - 5:31pm | 631The farmers have spoken. Nearly 670 public and private organizations endorsed Secretary of Agriculture nominee Sonny Perdue on Thursday. In a joint letter “on behalf of the farmers, ranchers, hunters, forest owners, cooperatives, businesses, trade associations, and all other segments of the...
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Talks Greece, China
Friday, July 10, 2015 - 2:04pm | 494Jack Lew visited the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday in honor of the fifth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act. While there, he spoke about two countries scrambling to resolve domestic financial crises: Greece and China. Greece "Right now, I don't see any immediate threat to...
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The 10 Most Affluent Cities In The World
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 - 3:09pm | 513The Brookings Institution recently released its Global Metro Monitor 2014, which includes an updated list of the world’s wealthiest cities. Brookings looked at the 300 largest cities in the world and ranked the cities in order of gross domestic product per capita, adjusted for purchasing...
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew: 'Our Entire Federal Tax Code Needs To Be Overhauled'
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 9:45am | 452U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew spoke at the Brookings Institution Wednesday about the need to end corporate tax inversions and reform the U.S. tax system following President Obama's State of the Union address. “Let me say at the outset that our entire federal tax code needs to be...
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Mobility At Record Low Due To Housing Bust
Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 7:12am | 174The ability to relocate for employment, which helped the U.S. recover quickly after previous deep recessions, is the latest victim of the housing bust. About 12.5 percent of Americans moved in the year ended March 2009, the second-lowest ever, estimates Brookings Institution demographer William...