In Maryland's booming prison economy there are winners and losers. Inmates face financial ruin and state taxpayers lose, too - about $39,000 per year, per inmate. Prison entrepreneurs, for whom each inmate is a government-subsidized business opportunity,

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Business investment in the U.K. fell at its fastest rate for nearly four years in the first quarter of 2008, the provisional estimate from the Office for National Statistics, released Thursday, showed.

24/04/2008 11:00:00 Business Wire US2074101013 In connection with the proposed merger, Penn National Gaming filed a Definitive Proxy Statement and other documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC").

In a free-fall economy, is the hope of work/life balance disappearing? Talk of global recession and doing more with less is on the front burner these days. What heads to the back burner are flexible working arrangements, wellness initiatives and telecommu

Newton's Law of Economists says that for every economist there is an equal and opposing economist. A corollary says that both are wrong. With this disclaimer out of the way, here is my account of the U.S. economy.