Topic: Economic Issues

Women earn 75% of men's salaries, OECD study shows

Differences between Czech men's and women's salaries are bigger than in most advanced countries with the biggest discrepancy being among those with...

Monetary illusions

The Economist . : Over the past few years the reputations of the rich world's central bankers have fluctuated wildly. When the financial crisis...
0 0 Share The Port of Portland Commission gave Executive Director Bill Wyatt a glowing job evaluation Wednesday, and raised his salary to $321,000...

J&J giving $200 million for health of women, kids

Health giant Johnson & Johnson is donating about $200 million in cash and medicine to a sweeping United Nations program created to improve the ...
Minnesota Fed president Narayana Kocherlakota says once again that there's little that monetary policy can do for the unemployment problem because...

Japan as number three

China has now officially supplanted Japan as the world's second largest economy. The question for Japan is whether or not the country will continue ...

More Places See Slower Growth

ECONOMY LOSES SPEED: A Federal Reserve survey found ''widespread signs'' that economic growth had slowed in the late summer. . . WEAKNESS SPREADS: ...
Jeffrey Peek, the chief executive who built up the CIT Group, only to see it nearly capsize during the financial crisis, has returned to his...
Researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California are developing a filter that rapidly kills bacteria in water. The researchers hope...

Obama discusses economy, touts business tax cuts

From NBC's Athena Jones PARMA, OH -- As the final stretch of the midterm election season approaches, the Obama administration has been eager to...