Rig idling near 20-year high, say drillers

In macroeconomics, this has indisputably been the year of Thomas Piketty. Rarely, if ever, has a single book so profoundly influenced the public discourse on a central topic, the inequality of wealth and income in the developed economies over many centuries. In an age of tweets and sound bites, the …

For a long time, the most common way to rent and purchase new movies was visiting physical stores like Blockbuster. But after Netflix came along with its DVD-by-mail service in the late ’90s — and later, its popular subscription streaming service — companies started devising new ways …

The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales increased 2.4 percent to an annual rate of 5.15 million units. Home resales have now increased for four straight months after the housing market recovery stalled in the second half of 2013 following a run-up in mortgage rates. In a separate report, the …