by Rebecca Wilder German Construction Is Looking a Bit ‘Bubbly’ Eurostat released its volume-adjusted estimate of construction for April (release here, .pdf). Over the month, Euro area construction declined 2.75%…

…in 2005, while that in the euro area (including Germany) is 2% below. In all, the euro area April industrial production release points to further divergence in growth prospects and…

Guest post by Kenneth Thomas Social Security Hurt by Republican Jobs Obstructionism The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) published its commentary on Monday’s release of the Social Security…

If past file conventions hold true these links should work immediately on release of the 2012 Social Security and Medicare Reports Monday morning. This link SHOULD get you to the…

…Report release time and I want to leave time for people to do some fact checking and link following. All I ask is that people keep the reality of the…

…Washington Post (April 5, 2012). And of course, private equity firms do not necessarily invest only in domestic companies. They may hold considerable assets offshore–possibly in some of those very…

Today’s release of personal income and expenditure data was about as expected and the January-February data suggest that first quarter real personal expenditures component of the real GDP account will…

…could well do that. The oral arguments in those cases are, like the arguments next week, likely to be mere shows. But with a more limited-release audience and opposite results….

Given Ryan’s release of his new plan calling for territorial taxation of corporations comes this example of Apple from Kenneth Thomas, Middle class political economist econoblog: Apple Whines About Having…

…IBNET — a fantastic resource on water utility data in many countries — I was unable to find a good centralized index of water data. Even more depressing, I was…