…The Census Bureau: without family unemployment benefits, 4.7 million more people, including 1.4 million children, would have been below the poverty line in 2020 (under the official poverty measure). The…
…the UK, which the US Census Bureau reckons had an almost-$12bn surplus in 2024. “[It is] quite an extraordinary calculation after months of work behind the scenes,” said Jim Reid, the global…
…reproduce now is net business formations vs. terminations. The Census Bureau does update formations monthly, but they are not seasonally adjusted and must be viewed YoY (particularly because of huge…
…billion (about €30 billion or $40 billion) in 2010, but that program was replaced in 2012 by a four-year Extended Fund Facility Arrangement for SDR 23.8 billion (€28 billion or…
…While the output of U.S. high tech manufacturing is still the largest in the world and accounted for $390 billion of global value added in high-tech manufacturing in 2010, U.S….
…out YoY for 2009 to 2010 or 2010 to 2011.) Krugman is probably right not to dismiss out of hand the idea that you can sustain economic growth with a…
…objected to a debt ceiling increase in order to force appointment of a special Fiscal Responsibility Commission. In November of 2010 former Senator Alan Simpson, co-chair of the deficit…
Open letter to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan: The only legislation that can realistically end gun violence in Oakland – and Chicago – is a labor law: doubling the minimum wage…
…hurting the recovery” by “spending and investing too little.” As Ezra notes, “government spending and investment have, at all levels, been contractionary since 2010.” Yet Republicans are responding to the…
…like Yahoo, Google, Merck, and Dell are sham companies that “only exist on paper”. $10.2 trillion dollars went through 14,300 of those sham companies in 2010. Id. Merck has 54…