ANN ARBOR – Here’s some news that should give Retailers and eTailers a warm feeling this Holiday season. A University of Michigan report released Friday contends consumers will spend more in 2015 and 2016 than they have since 2016, before the long recession began. U-M economist Richard Curtin, director of the U-M Surveys of Consumers,
ANN ARBOR – During the first decade of this new century Michigan lost nearly a million jobs. In a new forecast by University of Michigan economists, the state will regain two-thirds of those jobs by the end of 2017, returning to employment levels not seen since spring 2003. In their annual November forecast of Michigan's
ANN ARBOR - The annual unemployment rate will likely fall below 5 percent next year - the first time since 2007 - as the U.S. economy grows at its highest rate in a decade, economists at the University of Michigan predicted Thursday. The national economy will add 4.7 million jobs over the next two years
