Economy
Consumers Winning With Low Oil Prices, For Now
Lest we be too quick to forget whence we came, America is now 9-months into lower gasoline prices, which started their swoon the week of ……Read More
Business
Economy
Everyone Is Guessing When It Comes To Oil Prices
Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year. But along with all of the ……Read More
Economy
The Impact of Trade with Japan on U.S. Employment
Governments always like to have us believe that trade deals are good for the economy. From research done by Robert E. Scott at the Economic Policy Institute ……Read More
Markets
Fun and Games with the Federal Open Market Committee
While the world's economy teetered on the edge in 2009, the great minds at the Federal Reserve could still see humour in the pain. Recently ……Read More
Economy
Here’s What Will Send Oil Prices Back Up Again
Oil's rapid decline since August of last year has been dramatic. To listen to some commentators you would also think it is unprecedented and irreversible. ……Read More
Economy
What is the Wage Inflation Relationship Telling Us?
There are many employment statistics that play second fiddle to the headline U-3 data but two of them, the employment cost index and average hourly ……Read More