What could play a central role reforming the nation’s health care system happens in a small conference room of the Aesculapius Medical Center — two patients learning the basics of managing their diabetes.

Singapore’s economy surged for a second straight quarter in the July-to-September period as manufacturing led the city-state out of recession.

Small companies create more than half of America’s jobs, but the entrepreneurs who drive this part of the economy continue to complain that access to credit two years into the recession remains scarce.

The federal government will soon start handing out the first $4 billion from a pot of stimulus funds intended to spread high-speed Internet connections to more rural communities, poor neighborhoods and other pockets of the country clamoring for better access.

Visitors can smell this village long before they see it. More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to empty their loads in a landfill as big as 20 football fields.

There may not be as much slack in the U.S. economy as many forecasters believe, which means medium-term inflation risks could be higher, a Federal Reserve official said on Sunday.

Workers may need to do more homework when they evaluate their health coverage options this fall. This year, more employers may include a new type of plan that can chop premium payments by nearly 20 percent and give consumers a tax break.

With earnings reports arriving in earnest this week, investors are likely to get a boost in optimism or an unpleasant surprise.

The stock market is set to continue its winning ways in the coming week as momentum builds during earnings season. The latest quarterly reporting period is off to a strong start, but this week will be crucial to hopes that revenue growth has returned triumphant, as opposed to earnings surprises resulting mostly from cost-cutting.

Recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: ——