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Douglas J. Elliott, who worked as an investment banker for two decades, is a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

We asked Gallup's editor-in-chief Frank Newport about whether Americans are pessimistic about the future, and how that compares to Americans of decades past.

It's still only a trickle compared to the flood of jobs that America lost to overseas outsourcing in recent decades.

But some American businesses are bringing jobs home again.

The Internet has dramatically transformed business and culture over the last two decades. But what's it worth?

Through their foundations, the Mandel brothers — Jack, Joseph, and Morton — have been investing in Cleveland for decades, and they don't plan to stop any time soon....

The defined-contribution plan has revolutionized retirement for US workers. But after 3 decades and the Great Recession, key fixes are needed.

When you sign for a debit card at a big retailer, the store pays your bank more than twice as much as when you enter a PIN — a strategy hatched decades ago by Visa.

There has never been a better time to be a consumer. Prices, for everything from homes to frozen pizzas, are tumbling at the fastest rate in decades.

Retail analysts say stores could suffer the worst holiday sales in decades this year. But things may not be as bad as they look.

Joel Rose reports.

Seven decades ago, efforts to balance the federal budget thrust a recovering economy into a giant tailspin. Are policymakers headed in the wrong direction again?