Flushing accountants Stan Pearlman, left, and Bobby Shethia believe the economy will worsen before it improves, which they predict will happen in six months to a year.

Shocks in the housing, stock and commodity markets continue to dampen the economy but it will pick up next year, the president of the San Francisco Federal reserve said Monday.

Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) conference call is getting underway, and it should be an interesting one, following the miss. One interesting wrinkle so far: Google's Chief Economist Hal Varian is on the call, and will talk about the economics of the business. Ki

An expert in the field of economics who has served as a visiting scholar with the Federal Reserve Bank has reportedly predicted Tennessee will see at least another year-and-a-half of financial hardships.

The economy remained "generally weak" heading into summer as rising costs for energy and food pounded consumers and forced some companies to push their own prices higher. The Fed's new snapshot of business conditions, released Wednesday in Washingto