The August employment report shows the economy continuing with its very sluggish pace. Although the unemployment rate fell it was due more to a contracting labor force rather than expanding…

…game the federal system on taxes, or Medicare reimbursements, or federal contracting or similar items) Consider the fact that Bain and other private equity firms purchased a for-profit hospital. One…

by Rebecca Wilder World Trade Turning Down Something different for today: world trade. Recently, South Korea and Taiwan released July 2012 trade statistics, where annual export growth was seen contracting…

…consumption at the aggregate level. Euro area real consumption is still contracting. The question then becomes: will the pace of consumption contraction increase or decrease in coming quarters? We’ll have…

…and Ireland must fall further and/or rents rise to normalize home values. That’s a tall order: rising rental values amid defficient and contracting domestic demand in Spain and possibly Ireland….

…altogether from ‘non-core’ functions such as the provision of infrastructure services (ii) to minimise the state role in core functions (health, education, income security) through contracting out, voucher schemes and…

…2009 to 9% in mid-2011 was due to the labor force contracting. During 2011 both employment and the labor force started growing, so that recent declines in the unemployment rate…

…which economy is pursuing procyclical fiscal policy, namely deficits rise when the economy is booming and fall when the economy is contracting: the EA. originally published at The Wilder View…Economonitors…

…business model, neither for the banks nor for the sovereigns. Europe is headed toward recession – in fact, it’s probably already contracting – and EU policy makers agreed to explicitly…

…(Italy is 1 of just 2 G7 countries expected to run a primary surplus in 2011, according to the IMF). The problem is, that (1) Italy’s contracting, and (2) a…