by Linda Beale CRS reports on repatriation tax holiday impact Shortly before the Christmas holiday, CRS released a report by Donald Marples and Jane Gravelle on the possibility of a…

…participation rate is noise, not a trend. November is the month when part time employment for the Christmas season starts and this can cause data problems. The work week for…

…for them. It is about $3900/yr. Well, we’re not decorating with mums this fall and Christmas looks to be out too. How much you wanna bet spring next year and…

…get plenty of snow. If you don’t like cross country skiing, downhill, or snowshoe-ing; you go dormant. Got snowshoes for Christmas as my oldest son kept my cross country skiis….

…argue this line may have been Thomas McClanahan of the KC Star in this piece from Christmas: More mythbusting on Social Security ‘money’” in which he informs us how mistaken…

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from all the Bears…

…make your own guesses about the other component of real GDP but it now looks like fourth quarter growth will exceed almost everyone’s expectations. May everyone have a Merry Christmas….

…to produce their own versions just in time to get bogged down by the Christmas Holidays. What had been at the introduction of the Tri-Committee Bill and Senate HELP a…

…increase the money supply in December to make sure there’s adequate money in circulation for the Christmas shopping season, and yet interest rates don’t move at all. This week, I…

…We’ve all seen the claim that starts this article: “On Christmas Day, for the first time in its history, Amazon.com (AMZN) sold more digital books than the old fashioned kind.”…