The University of South Carolina Upstate on Monday unveiled an architectural rendering of the George Dean Johnson Jr. College of Business and Economics.

Economic growth slowed in Virginia in 2007 compared with the previous year, reflecting a trend seen in many other states, a federal government report showed. Virginia's gross domestic product grew about 1.9 percent in 2007, slower than the state's 2.2 p

Last week I made a comment on how this economy came to where it is today. I made an allusion to the fact that the economic ditch we are in is indeed a political business cycle gone wrong because it is driven by political decisions made 10 or so years ago.

After years of boom, official figures on the economy published today will show that growth has slumped to nearly zero, leaving the nation already in, or close to, recession.

Stocks are down, down, down. But student interest in economics appears to be trending upward. The financial crisis has made "the dismal science" more relevant and immediate to many high school and college students, and they are suddenly paying closer...