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If an economic slowdown indeed lies ahead in the second half of 2006, many southeastern Wisconsin businesses don't see...

Wisconsin's Department of Workforce Development projects that the fields that will produce the most new jobs in the state...

Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) increasingly will implement information technology (IT) infrastructure similar in quality and efficiency to those...

More hospitals are coming to the suburbs at the same time that some are being closed in the city...

The retail real estate landscape in metropolitan Milwaukee will undergo a dramatic transformation in the second half of 2006....

The costs of producing and transporting goods are rising dramatically. Gasoline costs more. Demands for natural gas, coal and...

The BizTimes Stock Index, despite skyrocketing to new all-time highs earlier this spring, lost its steam and fell right...

The U.S. economy is due for a "correction" or a "cooling off," rather than an outright collapse into stagflation...

Looking back, the American consumers led the U.S. economy out of the recession of 2001. They kept buying houses. They kept buying cars. They kept buying clothes. They kept buying computers and cell phones. They even returned to the airports. But now, American consumers are tired. They already have refinanced their debt and tapped out their home equity lines of credit. They also are absorbing a quadruple threat of rising energy costs, fuel costs, interest rates and health care costs. Consumer bankruptcies and mortgage foreclosures are skyrocketing. As consumer demand slows, so too will the U.S. economy in the second half of 2006, according to Clare Zempel, Milwaukee's foremost economist.

Riteway Bus Service Inc. Washington County renewed a contract to Riteway Bus Service Inc., Richfield, to continue operating the...