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By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Amid growing worries about deflation, or a sustained period of falling prices, some analysts recommend that investors buy bonds, which can do better in that kind of dangerous environment.But interest rates on all kinds of bonds are at such skimpy levels that fixed income may ...Read More

Buffett has often said he’d look at rail car loadings if he were forced to pick just one economic statistic to be stuck with for the rest of his life. The figure, he says, is a great real-time proxy for the health of the economy. View the entire post ...Read More

Can microbreweries revive the economy? That’s the hope of Sen. Kerry and a bipartisan group of lawmakers pushing a plan to cut taxes on small brewers in hopes of stimulating hiring. View the entire post here: Can Beer Stimulus Hop Up the Economy?

Economists have almost as much trouble making sense of the past as they do in their fundamental role of forecasting the future path of the economy. View the entire post here: Economists Strive For Better Forecasting Regime

George Osborne has said the government will announce next week how it plans to make

The severe winter contributed to a “hesitant” beginning to 2010 for the economy, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce has said. A survey found cold weather at the start of the year affected confidence and activity across all sectors. The main business trends remain negative but are better than ...Read More

A third runway at Heathrow airport would provide a

A Conservative government would not make “swingeing cuts” to public spending during its first year, party leader David Cameron has told the BBC. But he said it was right to make a start on cutting the deficit, to avoid the same “scale of problems” as Greece, where public ...Read More

The Bank of England has held UK interest rates at the record low of 0.5% in a widely-expected move. It also announced no changes to its programme of pumping newly-created money into the economy - so-called quantitative easing (QE). In November, the Bank of England said it would ...Read More

Zimbabwe’s first budget since its unity government began sharing power 10 months ago predicts a healthy economic future for the country. Finance minister Tendai Biti said the economy would grow by 7% next year, after 10 years of sharp contraction. He said growth would come from key sectors ...Read More