As consumers gear up for Thanksgiving and then holiday shopping, they can add one more thing to their list of blessings – the falling price of gasoline. Since most forms
General Motors streetcar conspiracy theorists believe that the electric tram didn’t die a natural death; rather, it was murdered by GM and the savviness of one innovative businessman.
The Dow should have been down 500 points today. And that’s to say nothing of the fact that the market’s current lofty valuation makes no sense in the first place.
Irish policymakers are keen telling us that jobs creation has been robust and of high quality in recent years. Which, thus, begs a question: why does OECD data show Ireland as having one of the most severe mismatches between workforce skills and e…
“…Perhaps the problem at the heart of the Eurozone is that economic policy advice in Germany has been effectively captured by employers’ interests, and perhaps the interests of banks in particular.”
Trade’s drag on recent economic growth and on the current economic recovery increased in the third quarter of this year.
The WMT stock price barely reacted Monday to the news that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) plans to get a jump on Cyber Monday by launching its sales at 8 p.m. Sunday, four hours earlier than usual.
That’s because it’s another sign of Wal-Mart’s desperation to shore up its weak online retail presence.
Remember the mythology of European productivity miracles:The EU is at least as competitive as the U.S.
The Fed has kept interest rates stuck near zero for the last seven years, so there’s little wonder investors and savers feel like “perma-zero” is the new paradigm.
Despair and ennui have settled in.
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, asked Janet Yellen why The Federal Reserve kept interest rate so low for so long hurting savers.