PEJ: Economy, Election Top News Coverage

Middle East coverage drops out of top five stories for first time in five...

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Frugal Fashion: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is sheerly beautiful

The new film "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," the third installment in the robot action series, was the top-grossing movie in the country last weekend. Audiences were treated to fighting robots in 3-D and a new leading lady, British Victoria's...

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What’s next for economy

Almost no one is satisfied with the current state of the U.S. economy

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What’s next for economy: Slow growth, weak hiring

Almost no one is satisfied with the current state of the U.S. economy

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Report shows Okla.’s economy continues to expand

Fueled in large part by the booming oil and natural gas industry, Oklahoma's economy continues to expand at an accelerating pace, with gross receipts for the month of June outpacing last year's collections by more than 15 percent, state Treasurer Ken Miller said Tuesday.

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The hidden costs of fuel economy regulations

They are at it again -- the government and the automakers are trying to determine what's good for American car buyers. As usual, they have the right destination in mind, but they are heading in the wrong direction to get there.

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Economy Keeps Global Warming on Back Burner for 2012

Still shunned as fringe ideologues, or worse, by Democrats and much of the formal scientific community, skeptics of global warming were nonetheless celebratory as they gathered in Washington last week for the conservative Heartland Institute's annual climate change conference. And for good reason.

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Economy to grow 3.6%

South Africa's economy is expected to grow at a rate of 3.6 percent this year, according to a report released by the SA Institute of International Affairs on Tuesday.

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Economy to grow 4.5% this year: UBS

KUALA LUMPUR, July 5 -- UBS Investment Bank expects the Malaysian economy to grow by 4.5 per cent this year and 5.0 per cent in 2012. Managing director and deputy head of global economics, UBS Investment Research, Paul Donovan said the forecast numbers are in line with the global political and economic situation.

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Irwin Kellner: For the economy, it’s a tug of war

The business and financial outlook for the second half of 2011 and beyond will be determined by which of two important economic concepts prevails: the wealth effect or the income effect.

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