…affiliated reinsurance transactions. The JCT report notes that the lack of a market price for affiliate transactions provides an incentive to shift income between affiliates at off-market prices. Also not…

…for example, is still carrying a bottoms up forecast of some 20% EPS growth for 2011. The recent stock market volatility — it’s interesting that stock market is only volatile…

…fallen by less than half the average, -9 pps since the first month of recovery, July 2009. In terms of relative labor market performance 24 months into the recovery/expansion, this…

The stock market is adjusting to weaker 2011 economic and earnings growth. Business executives, analysts and economists have yet to reduce their 2011 estimates, So the important question is how…

…allowed to default soon (at least the next 12 months, given current market conditions). I say ‘allowed’ because true to the IMF legacy, EU/Euro area officials very likely see restructuring…

Hat tip Mark Thoma for Brad Delong’s catch of the ‘can’t hire workers’ complaint without checking for real reasons or facts: Quote: Grasping for Reality about Labor Market Conditions Fresno…

…laborers in the market. If you continue in the market of labor during this glut, your wages must fall. What is the remedy? To go out of the market… When…

…bought Spanish bonds, the Chinese stabilized the market. The Chinese did something no one else can do for them—bought another currency on the open market. And this is the key…

…rates. According to MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, under the Senate Finance Committee’s reform plan, those who move from the individual market to the Exchange’s group market will enjoy savings ranging…

…Another discusses wage differentials not due to worker characteristics. Since Murphy is one of the authors, they are assumed to be compensating differentials not labor market rents but it doesn’t…