economics

Beyond the irrepressible ire of rural America, Republicans boasted another edge going into the 2016 elections. According to Associated Press analyses, gerrymandering ultimately fixed the Congressional composition. After the 2010 census, the GOP had redrawn district lines and reconfigured voting...

Investors who hold one or more of the "FANG" stocks shouldn't be worried about a slowing economy, according to Goldman Sachs' chief U.S. equity strategist David Kostin. Speaking as a guest on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" Wednesday, Kostin backed up his thesis that...

President-elect Donald Trump may have made a large error in his first press conference following his election win on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, Trump was asked a standard question on the economy. He answered that there "are 96 million [people] wanting a job and they can't get [one]. You...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took to Twitter within minutes of Friday's job reports that showed the U.S. economy added 38,000 jobs. "Terrible jobs report just reported. Only 38,000 jobs added. Bombshell!" Taking politics out of the equation, the question many are...

Dr. Daniel Altman is a Harvard University educated economist, so when he writes an opinion piece on why the "dismal science" has a done a "dismal job," people should pay close attention to what he has to say. According to Altman, economics is divided into two camps — there are "positive"...

While there is plenty of data on new housing starts -- an important economic indicator -- up until now there has been little information available on residential remodeling. On August 10, the inaugural BuildZoom & Urban Economics Lab report "New Eye On Housing And The Economy," was made...

A lot can change in a decade. But what about three? We set out to answer a simple question: what will the United States be like in the year 2050? How will the population change? What will happen to marriage and divorce? How valuable will a bachelor's degree be? And how much will you be...

The Brazilian government is sailing troubled waters. A difficult economic situation, corruption scandals and massive protests undermine the legitimacy of President Dilma Rousseff. Pro-government protesters flooded the streets on Friday, defending democracy and Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (...

Month-old gas station OnCue in Oklahoma made national news Wednesday, as it became the war on gas frontiersman. Crossing the $2.00 per gallon level was the initial breaking of the lines in the high-priced gas garrison. Bloomberg reported Wednesday evening that another station, Broadway Food...

Neil Dutta is the head of U.S. economics for Renaissance Macro Research, and he said that even though the risk of an outbreak in the United States is low, there will still be a lot of headlines about it in the near future. He recently joining Benzinga’s #PreMarket Prep to share thoughts...

Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) priced its initial public offering at $26 a share after Wednesday's trading, a touch lighter than investment bankers had hoped. It's not clear how the pricing, which values the company at roughly $14.2 billion, will affect markets on Thursday. Stocks mostly finished higher...

Stocks moved modestly higher on Monday for a second day in a row. The gains came despite a steep losses suffered by shares of mobile phone maker BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) and Kellogg (NYSE: K [FREE Stock Trend Analysis]) announcement it will cut seven percent of its workforce over the next...