By Carlos Torres on May 21, 2012 Employment will improve more this year than economists previously estimated, helping the world's largest economy to keep growing, a private survey showed. Payrolls will rise 188000 a month on average in 2012, ... Mon, 21 May 2012 04:22:27 GMT
The survey of 54 economists painted a fairly upbeat picture of the labor market, which has slowed in recent months after job creation surged early in the year. "Economists continue to see things pick up, even if it's just slightly from pretty low ... Mon, 21 May 2012 05:03:13 GMT
By One on One Nouriel Roubini, co-founder of the economic strategy firm Roubini Global Economics in New York, is worried about the so-called fiscal cliff the United States is facing at year's end. I caught up with Roubini to talk economics, ... Sun, 20 May 2012 19:38:45 GMT
John M. Quigley, who died last week, was a pioneering economist who helped change the way we think about housing. He devised statistical models of housing quality and the risks inherent in mortgage-backed securities, documented the discrimination that ... Tue, 15 May 2012 17:34:38 GMT
Here's what some economists have been saying over the past week. By Szu Ping Chan In case of the crisis intensifying without political leaders managing to come up with a viable solution, it is unlikely that the revenues, especially in June and July ... Fri, 18 May 2012 06:01:05 GMT
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA economist Annamaria Grimaldi has never lived in Germany and doesn't speak the language, yet she's still the top forecaster of the country's most-watched economic indicator. The Ifo institute's business confidence index has ... Sun, 20 May 2012 23:17:36 GMT
I mean is the economy contracting by around 5 per cent as the European Central Bank predicted or as one economist put it, is this an economy in freefall? YANIS VAROUFAKIS: Our listeners must grasp something very, very simple. This is not a recession, ... Mon, 21 May 2012 04:44:23 GMT
The Economist Group is launching its own UK digital ad network that offers brands the opportunity to target consumers based on editorial content rather than using cookies. The Ideas People ad network, which has existed in the US since 2010 but is now ... Fri, 18 May 2012 14:17:58 GMT
“In reviewing this litany of troubles,” Mr. David wrote in the Economist nearly two years before the so-called Arab Spring, “it is necessary to remember that what people call 'the Arab world' is a big and amorphous thing, and arguably not one thing at ... Tue, 15 May 2012 16:38:38 GMT
By DYLAN BYERS | Peter David, The Economist's Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist, died in a car accident on Thursday night, the magazine reports today. He was 60. David had been with the London-based magazine for 28 years.
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