Texas big in list of America's fastest-growing cities

Yesterday, we brought you U-Haul's list of top U.S. destinations for movers. Houston won, followed by Orlando and Chicago. But U-Haul has also put out a list of cities with most in-moves as a percentage of overall moves in 2012. By this count, Pittsburgh saw the most growth, followed by Vegas suburb Henderson and Austin.

Nine in ten of America's fastest-growing counties by population are in states that went for Mitt Romney in November, according to new Census data.

Jason Parker, a credit analyst at BMO Capital Markets, has added his weight to the prevailing view that the residential real estate market in some parts of the country won’t be as attractive in the near term future as it has been in the past.

Jason Parker, a credit analyst at BMO Capital Markets, has added his weight to the prevailing view that the residential real estate market in some parts of the country won’t be as attractive in the near term future as it has been in the past.

Fed's Beige Book: Reports from the twelve Federal Reserve Districts indicated that economic activity generally continued to expand since the last report, though a few Districts indicated some deceleration. Some slowing in the pace of growth was noted in the New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Chicago Districts. In contrast, Dallas characterized that region's economy as accelerating. Other Districts indicated that growth continued at a steady pace....

Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog.By Cees Bruggemans, Chief Economist of FNB.South African manufacturing has deeply disappointed of late in supposedly not recovering more strongly from the 2009 recession, especially in 2011, to the point of even promoting the impression of a new economic slowing or at least cyclical underperformance to be underway.

By Mike Konczal Why care about consumer financial protection? My interest in thinking about consumer financial protection laws started some time ago with this graph: