…currency’s value. …. I’m not particularly worried,” said economist John Makin of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. “It’s not as if we’re about to rocket higher ….. Such vigilance…

…Upjohn Institute economist Susan Houseman points out in the linked article, we’re talking about 5.5 million lost manufacturing jobs in that time frame. Here’s what it looks like in long…

…new book, The Servant Economy. Faux, the founder of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), was one of the most important voices speaking out against NAFTA when it was debated and…

…low base. Of note, the service industries in both Germany and Belgium may offer a “ray of hope” (the Ifo Institute puts it.), as these large economic sectors are perhaps…

…loser, not the winner, of the single currency union. His comments are loosely based on the research of the Ifo Institute’s Hans-Werner Sinn. Based on the ideas of Beck and…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: Employer Responses The Urban Institute and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation published a paper (October 2011) about the potential responses of employers…

…posts on the FEC. … Thomas Ferguson is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a contributing editor at AlterNet….

…in Phoenix to $24,965 in Miami. A just-released study by the Health Care Cost Institute shows that much of these spending increases are the result of rising prices and not…

…American Law Institute. The link is to the transcript via Alternet. …coverage is so successful because it accurately describes a campaign finance world that seems too surreal to be true….

No jobs for college grads. A report from the Economic Policy Institute shows that recent college graduates who will be eligible to cast their first votes in a presidential election…