Economy 4.0

Some banks are starting to charge fees if you want a paper statement mailed to you. The alternative? Download and print your own -- that is unless you don't have Internet access. Economy 4.0's David Brancaccio takes a look at the conundrum some people are in.

Kathy Johnson is a small business person in New Hampshire I got to meet covering my story about the trend toward putting financial services onlin...

Imagine if someone got it into their head to build their own white house
across from the White House near 16th and Pennsylvania in Washington. ...

There's more to evaluating a country's well-being than merely looking at GDP - that's why the non-profit public policy institute Redefining...

State Line. (David Brancaccio, 2010)...

Special correspondent David Brancaccio and the Economy 4.0 team cover the economy of the future -- and how to make it work better for more people....

David Brancaccio specializes in telling stories important to our economy and our democracy through the eyes of the real people who live in the...

Here are seven English words that may never have been used in this order before: Thank goodness for the Gulf oil spill. No sane person would ever...

You can catch a glimpse into how well our society's doing with standard economic indicators like the Consumer Price Index. But one Colorado community wanted to go beyond the official statistics and get a better sense of what's working and what's not. Marketplace's special correspondent David Brancaccio reports on Community Indicators.

Are regular economic indicators still the best way to measure our economy? In our latest Economy 4.0 report, David Brancaccio investigates into why alternative indicators might be moving into the mainstream.