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It's tough enough for a small business to survive in a down economy, to say nothing of achieving hoped-for growth by opening additional locations, expanding a product line or targeting new markets.

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial ...

In this paper we study how aggregate demand surprises affect and propagate to the global economy, with particular attention to their impact on Emerging Market Economies (EMEs). To do so, we introduce ...

My first bit of evidence [that the short run is over] is corporate profits. They are at an all time high, around two-and-a-half times higher in nominal terms than they were during the late 1990s, our ...

John Maynard Keynes’ book The General Theory of Interest, Employment, and Money is one of the classic works of the twentieth century. Keynes published his book in 1936 during the midst of the Great ...

Aggregate planning accounts for all resources a company has to meet projected demands. The balance of inventory, labor, demand and variations in demand can save money. The planner must use a time ...

Get the latest news and market analysis from our in-house experts. Real GDP shows the value of an economy’s output, adjusted for any changes in inflation, interest rates or other factors which could ...

LAST week, Christina Romer (head of Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors) gave a talk on the state of the economy, and particularly on unemployment. She joked that her preferred title for the ...