Economy
American Federal Budget A Double-Edged Problem
A recent study of the Federal Budget for the years 2014 and beyond prepared by Mindy R. Levit for Congress examines both the spending and ……Read More
Business
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
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