By Tim Iacono (Guest Post) The Labor Department reported that nonfarm payrolls increased by 103,000 in September and job gains for July and August were revised upward by a total of 99,000 (to 127,000 and 57,000,...
Read MoreBy Commodities Now (Guest Post) Governments and taxpayers spent about half a trillion dollars last year supporting the production and consumption of fossil fuels. Removing inefficient subsidies would raise national revenues...
Read MoreBy Leslie L. Kossoff via QFINANCE (Guest Post) Steve Jobs has died. He was too young to go. Too talented and visionary not to be missed. Too important to his company, Apple, for his shareholders and the markets to...
Read MoreBy EconMatters Sadly, Mr. Steve Jobs, Apple founder and CEO till a few months ago, passed away on Wed. Oct 5, 2011 at age 56 after losing a long battle to cancer. Mr. Jobs was a true technology titan who forever changed our...
Read MoreBy Michael Pettis (Guest Post) I spent the end of last week in Washington DC during the IMF/World Bank meetings. Needless to say this has been a pretty gloomy trip and most of the people I spoke to or heard speak had...
Read MoreBy Doug Short (Guest Post) Last week I updated my commentary on household income distribution to include the Census Bureau’s release of the 2010 data. My focus was on arithmetic mean (average)...
Read MoreBy Commodities Now (Guest Post) Global energy intensity increased 1.35 percent in 2010, reversing a broader trend of decline over the last 30 years, according to a new Vital Signs Online article. Energy intensity, defined...
Read MoreBy Russ Winter (Guest Post) The debt ratios of the key players illustrates well (first chart) that virtually everyone is courting fiscal crisis. The easy way out of turning to bigger, more solvent governments for...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes (Guest Post) The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced its worst quarter since the beginning of 2009. The S&P 500 Index fell 14 percent during the third quarter, with the materials sector as the...
Read MoreBy Prieur du Plessis (Guest Post) It is not a surprise the dollar continues to be the preferred official foreign exchange reserve currency, but the share shows a gradual decline in the past ten years. According to...
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