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Milwaukee-area businesses see economic recovery in 2010, according to a Business Outlook Survey conducted by the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC).

Editor's note: As part of the coverage in the Economic Trends special report, BizTimes Milwaukee asked Julia Taylor,...

Largely because of some recently-released economic reports, we have bumped up our real GDP (Gross Domestic Product) forecast significantly for Q4:2009 and much less so for all of 2010.

The three most important factors that drive the stock market turned bullish on balance in July and remain so now. The strategic investment implication is that investors should set their portfolio allocations to common stocks to their maximum comfort levels.

Considering that 2009 was a nightmare for most southeastern Wisconsin companies, you wouldn't know it by the performance of the stocks of the publicly traded corporations in the region.

Having served as an economist for Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Michael Knetter knows a thing or...

No doubt, most businesses throughout southeastern Wisconsin were eager to turn the calendar on 2009 and put the Great Recession to rest.

For years, manufacturing operations have moved from the United States to China to take advantage of the low cost of labor there. As China's economy has grown, the U.S. government has increasingly borrowed money from China to fill it's trade gap.

The national health care reform proposals call for mandating health insurance for all Americans, which would provide a boost to Waukesha-based Connecture Inc.

It's time to balance the view about China and look at the clay feet of the world's new economic giant. Having discussed some things that China is doing well in recent weeks, there are clouds on the horizon.