Nearly 32% of Metro Miami's growth in 2011 was foreign-born, and more than half went on to become US citizens. While South Florida's population has been fairly stagnant for a decade, it's starting an unexpected shift upward, with Miami-Dade's population growing 2.1% in one year.
economy. 1  thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc. 2  an act or means of thrifty saving; a saving: He achieved a small economy by walking to work instead of taking a bus. 3  the management of the resources of a community, country, etc., especially with a view to its productivity.
For the most part, the United States has a market economy in which individual producers and consumers determine the kinds of goods and services produced and the prices of those products. The most basic economic institution in market economies is the system of markets in which goods and services are bought and sold. That is where consumers buy most of the food, clothing, and shelter they use, and any number of things that they simply want to have or that they enjoy doing.