Europe’s long-simmering debt crisis explodes. Policymakers attempt fix after fix only to find their efforts are too little, too late.
As the year draws to a close, Real Time Economics takes a look back at five of our favorite charts from the Journal in 2011. These graphics look at the most recent year as well as the past to give…
The activists who organized Russia’s largest antigovernment protests in over 20 years said they would march again in February, a month before Prime Minister Vladimir Putin faces presidential…
In Part I of the documentary, “Europe at the Brink,” Wall Street Journal editors and reporters discuss structural flaws in the design of the EU’s economic union, the “original sin” that helped set…
131 million: The average number of people working in the United States in 2011, through November.
Decembers employment figures, which will be released by the Labor Department on Friday, will…
Spain’s new government said the country will miss its budget-deficit target by a wide margin, and announced spending cuts and tax increases valued at about $19.4 billion to stem the tide of red ink.
We are not the only ones making B2B social media marketing predictions for 2012 this time of year. Plenty of writers are sharing their thoughts on what will happen next year. Below are a variety…
Marketwatch’s Andria Cheng reports shoppers’ use of gift cards accounted for nearly 20% of all holiday sales in 2011, the highest percentage since 2006. AP Photo/Amy Sancetta
Manufacturing and service sector activity in Iowa declined during November while consumer spending indicators strengthened, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said Thursday.
The Hawkeye state’s…
A WSJ investigation revealed how the currency union floundered in indecision this spring—failing to address either the immediate concerns of investors or the fundamental weaknesses undermining the…
If hes successful with his latest nominations, President Barack Obama would become the first president since Ronald Reagan to put someone new from an opposing party onto the Federal Reserve…
Results from Russia’s parliamentary vote earlier this month are studded with red flags that suggest broad electoral fraud, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.