…which are essentially government run IRAs that are considered to be outside the Trust Fund itself. If we take the totality of LMS what are the tax and benefit implications?…

…— according to Bloomberg data. This gives them capital they need to offset losses from subprime mortgages that now total $343 billion. Investors obviously don’t see this as throwing good…

…not ‘looting’, but it is a promise that creates a specific future obligation, and is specifically booked as debt and shows up in the familiar $9 trillion total debt as…

…and a series for nominal fringe benefits as well as the sum of these two or total compensation. At the end of 2004, reported wages were $18.07 per hour and…

…and gas extraction, industrial chemicals manufacturing, and petroleum refining. Overall, the rate of change in total industrial production in August was reduced by an estimated 0.3 percentage point because of…

…of employers’ total compensation costs, with each type of benefit accounting for 6.5 percent of the total cost in December 2003. Increases in health insurance costs have received considerable attention…

…profits by restricting yourself to corporate profits. Either (a) divide corporate profits by corporate employment, or (b) divide total profits by private employment. Corporate profits divided by a measures of…

…of total health spending in the U.S. is a bit under half that of other nations. Finally, out-of-pocket spending in the U.S. is between 50% higher (Norway, Australia) and 300%…

…generated half that number of new jobs in March. THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION: MARCH 2005 Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 110,000 in March, and the unemployment rate declined to 5.2…

…1990s…A better measure is the federal government’s debt ratio, calculated as the total federal publicly held debt as a percentage of America’s annual income (the gross domestic product). The current…