…shows weakness. Why this is happening? The oil market is contracting, lowering their capital investment needs. International markets are weak and the dollar is still strong. It’s possible we could…

…aware that the board at public houses, if extravagant, not only required a corresponding price from the traveller, but also put him in the hazard of contracting a taste for…

…old Christian Democratic Party, who became a regional PD leader. There has been a stream of reports linking him to corruption scandals involving public contracting over the last few years….

…places to visit in Minnesota has an equal likelihood of contracting diseases that could mostly be avoided through innoculation. The last word on the issue, at least as far as…

…the firm. Conventional theories explain the existence, boundaries and internal organization of firms on the basis of contracting costs that impede the otherwise optimizing properties of market decentralization. I propose…

…with contracting out to private firms. The incentives civil servants face is enough to overcome the laziness of people less lazy than me (almost everyone) but it is nothing compared…

…or relational contracting—not there. These guys are completely out of their league. Finally, on a partially related note, the book is written in a cutesy style: aren’t we crazy now,…

…this morning’s durable goods orders showed a decline again: Figure 1 Manufacturing is flat to slightly contracting. The consumer, primarily thanks to lower mortgage rates, is keeping the economy going….

…and manufacturing specifically, remains weak or even contracting. But the larger consumer side, benefitting from lower mortgage rates, continues to power ahead. As usual, clicking over and reading helps reward…

…production and real retail sales tell us that the production sector remains in recession, while the consumer sector, while not contracting, has been treading water for nearly a half year….