Economy
Employment In America It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up To Be
We keep reading about the Federal Reserve and how it is basing its future policy decisions on the unemployment rate. While the U3 unemployment rate ……Read More
Economy
Economy
Energy Companies Pull a Blackwater
Norwegian energy company Statoil said last week it was forming a special operations division to handle emergency operations in response to a terrorist attack on ……Read More
Economy
The World’s Central Banks Living on Borrowed Time
The central bank of central banks, the Bank for International Settlements or BIS has recently published its Annual Report for 2012 – 2013. In this ……Read More
Economy
Extreme Energy, Extreme Implications: Interview with Michael Klare
If oil and gas is a profoundly dynamic phenomenon, then so too must be environmental risk and conflicts over natural resources—and we are not getting ……Read More
Economy
The Jobs Gap
An interesting "gizmo" (for lack of a better word) by the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institute gives us an idea of just how big ……Read More
Economy
The Fed and QE – Success or Failure?
Now that the Federal Reserve is considering when to "taper" its purchases of mortgage-backed securities and Treasuries, it's time to take a look at just ……Read More