When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
From The Financial Times: 'Rogue broker' blamed for oil spike By Javier Blas and Izabella Kaminska in London
From the Financial Times: Night of zombie company looms as debt burden remains large By Anousha Sakoui Financial Times Published:
Seven banks were taken over by the FDIC on Thursday, six of them based in Illinois. A total of 52
U.S. Job Report Suggests that Green Shoots are Mostly Yellow Weeds Nouriel Roubini's Global Economonitor Nouriel Roubini
The FT's John Authers (video clip) on market reaction to today's US payrolls data, which were
A summary of today's BLS report from Bob Feldman: The official "seasonally adjusted" unemployment rate for
From his Asia Times column: Cheating still beats real work By Julian Delasantellis Asia Times July 2d, 2009 A colleague
The creator of the fine website Across the Curve had the following to say about the situation on California tonight:
One more from today's FT: Radical shift in the banking power base By Patrick Jenkins and Jane Croft
Another FT article goes deeper into the increasing danger credit cards are putting banks into, and what they're
This is before new regulations come into effect that prevent them from doing this very thing come into effect in
From Wall Street Pit: Financial Crisis: The Two Sides of the Balance Sheet Wall Street Pit By James Kwak|Jun