Economy

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

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

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

In 2008, Canadian economist Jeff Rubin stunned the oil market with a bold prediction: With the world economy growing at 5 percent a year, oil ……Read More

It may be difficult to look beyond the current pricing environment for oil, but the depletion of low-cost reserves and the increasing inability to find ……Read More

There is one relatively little reported on economic measure that can give us a sense of where the economy is headed and that allows economists ……Read More