The U.S. economy grew at a solid 3.1 percent annual rate in the January-March quarter – a pace that will likely prove to be the high-water mark for the year before growth weakens in the coming months.
Even though there is much to fix in the world we are leaving to our children and our grandchildren, I remain optimistic. If there ever were a time in history for the design professions to step up, it is now.
The current expansion has lasted since the official end of the Great Recession in June 2009, or almost nine and a half years. If it lasts seven months more, it’ll be the longest expansion in at least 160 years.
Massachusetts is among the states hardest hit by the United States’ trade deficit with China, which has grown by $100 billion since the Great Recession and has stripped nearly 100,000 jobs from the state, according to a new study.
Thinking about remodeling your home – redoing a bathroom or the kitchen? Or maybe purchasing a new home from a builder? Or simply buying new appliances?
In about 10 years’ time, a completely new payment model built around QR codes has become the dominant payment alternative for the world’s most populous country – China.
Earlier this year, President Donald Trump and his administration imposed a wide range of tariffs – and have since threatened to inflict more – stoking trade wars with allies and countries that do an immense amount of business with the U.S. such as China.
