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In the most impressive surge for the job market since the middle of last decade, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected.

The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.

Where do economists, practitioners, academics, Nobel laureates, and PhD students go when they have a conference?A Well, every year about 10,000 gather together for the Allied Social Science Associations Conference .A This year, the event is being held in Chicago from Jan.

Business leaders and economists have joined forces with union bosses to urge ministers to press ahead with plans for a new high-speed rail link.

Jobs. Europe. Housing. Health care. The writers of the Economic View column examine these and other big issues of the new year, and possible ways to solve them.

The U.S. economy will grow faster in 2012 — if it isn't knocked off track by upheavals in Europe, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists.

Private companies have been the prime engine of China’s economic miracle, and economists warn that the Chinese government’s eagerness to control more of that wealth could stifle innovation.

Economists agree that reviving growth is the No. 1 issue of the 2012 presidential campaign.

4 Alternative Economic Indicators Economists and non-economists have come up with small ways to either judge the present or predict the future.

Here’s a sample of some of the more interesting indicators.

The United States has a confidence problem, and a growing number of economists argue that the collapse of housing prices plays a major role.

Economists are beginning to wonder whether a default or a more radical debt restructuring might be no worse for Greece than the miserable path it is currently on.