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Real-time economy (not to be confused with real economy) is an environment where all the transactions between business entities are in digital format, increasingly automatically generated, and completed in real-time (as they occur) without store and forward processing, both from business and IT-processing perspectives. For enterprises, public ...
1904 cartoon warning attendees of the St. Louis World's Fair of hotel room price gouging. Price gouging is a pejorative term used in the USA (but not in most other English speaking countries) to refer to the practice of increasing the prices of goods, services, or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair by some.
Blue economy is a term in economics relating to the exploitation, preservation and regeneration of the marine environment. Its scope of interpretation varies among organizations. However, the term is generally used in the scope of international development when describing a sustainable development approach to coastal resources and ocean ...
The US economy added 206,000 jobs in June, lower than a downwardly revised tally of 215,000 jobs in May, and the unemployment rate topped 4% for the first time since November 2021. New ...
Business portal. Money portal. v. t. e. This is a list of important publications in economics, organized by field. Some basic reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important: Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic. Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly.
Economic growth in the first half of the year was solid, with the economy expanding a robust 2.8% annualized rate in the second quarter, according to fresh Commerce Department figures released ...
The U.S. economy is heavily dependent on road transport for moving people and goods. Personal transportation is dominated by automobiles, which operate on a network of four million miles (6.4 million km) of public roads, [ 339] including one of the world's longest highway systems at 57,000 miles (91,700 km). [ 340]
Consumer spending accounts for the vast majority of the US economy, about 70% of it. Spending accelerated sharply in the second quarter to an annual rate of 2.3%, up from 1.5% in the first quarter ...