The second is a press release regarding the Nation Academy of Social Insurance’s new study. http://www.nasi.org/press/releases/2013/01/press-release-americans-make-hard-choices-social-security The survey used a new approach to measuring public opinion about Social Security. In…
…30, 2011 the Fed held $1,617 billion worth of Treasuries: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20110630/ According to the most recent release (August 30) the Fed now holds $1,639 billion worth of Treasuries. http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/08/31/1140881/if-qe3-is-so-close-why-is-the-feds-balance-sheet-shrinking/ According…
…e.g., the NerdWallet study, Top Companies Paid 9% Tax Rate (July 24, 2012). Because tax provision includes both domestic and foreign, current and deferred taxes, NerdWallet researched further to find…
…students will be forced to buy a new text book or buy a special code allowing them to use the book new or old. The press release describing the new…
by Kenneth Thomas What is Mitt Romney Hiding? Mitt Romney has so far released only one year of tax returns (2010), plus an estimate for 2011. This stands in stark…
…of the Euro area economy (.pdf of release). In January, volume adjusted retail sales increased 0.3% in the Euro area (EA) and broke a 4-month trend downward. On a 3-month…
by Rebecca Wilder Euro Area Portfolio Flows Today the ECB released the Euro area balance of payments for December. This is a statistical release that is worthy of only the…
…This is just arithmetic. So the key question is whether actions taken by the US can cause the trade deficit to contract and with it US unemployment. This is where…
Next week the Bureau of Economic Analysis will release its estimate of Q2 US GDP growth. Of 69 economists polled, the bloomberg consensus is that the US economy grew at…
…of work, finance, market participants grapple with the monthly economic data flow, eyeing each release as if it’s telling a new story about the current prospect for US economic growth…