When Microsoft completes its acquisition of LinkedIn in a few months' time, the economic graph will gain access to the data gleaned from the 1.2 billion Microsoft Office users worldwide.

Linkedin's engineering director Asif Makhani and principal engineer Sriram Sankar explained in a blog post how Galene is also supposed to turn search on its head with a "people-centric" approach ...

The long-term vision for the next decade, he continued, is to develop the world's first "economic graph," or mapping the global economy digitally. "Increasingly, jobs are fragmented.

The Phillips curve, which is relevant to much of today’s economic news, is one of these. This graph, developed by New Zealand-born economist William Phillips, relates changes in wage rates or ...

Ten years ago, it was obvious that our economic stewards had mastered a kind of thermostatic control over business cycles to prevent great recessions. We were wrong, wrong, and wrong.

As this graph shows, debt held by the public in the U.S. totals about 70 percent of the economy. For the U.S. to avoid going down the same path as Europe, Washington must curb federal spending." ...