McDonald's Corp. shares jumped to a new six-year high Wednesday after the world's largest fast-food chain raised its annual dividend 49 percent, part of efforts to return more cash to shareholders.

[Edmund S. Phelps]Evidence-based economics Korea Herald (subscription), South Korea - ... Edmund Phelps, Nobel laureate in economics for 2006, is professor of economics at Columbia University and director of its Center on Capitalism and Society. ...

The US economy according to Art Laffer Florida Times-Union, FL - ... "I have never experienced, I have never seen, never heard of, never read about any economy that is performing as well as the US economy is today," Laffer told ...