Eurostat has published a report on regional unemployment differences within Europe. Here are a few interesting facts within it: -10 out of the 12 regions with the lowest unemployment rate are German speaking, which...
I personally prefer MZM as a measure of money supply in the U.S., and the fact that the movement was across a certain nominal threshold is of mostly symbolic nature, but it is still interesting that M2 rose above...
One interesting fact is that France has 2.4 times as many companies with 49 employees as with 50. Why? Because once a company reached 50 employees they must initiate profit sharing, create „worker councils”...
Simple answer: California has restricted oil production for environmentalist reasons while North Dakota hasn’t, as this article discusses. An excerpt: How did North Dakota pull it off? Oil production has driven the...
Oil prices have recently risen, in part because of inflationary monetary policies and in part because the supply of oil from Iran is falling as the U.S. and the EU targets it with sanctions and as Iran has stopped deliveries...
What the debt crisis is ultimately about is the fact that in certain Southern European countries people are spending too much compared to what they earn. With regard to this we are seeing significant progress in Portugal and...
With both the manufacturing and the non-manufacturing surveysindicating increased expansion and with construction spendingand employment increasing, it seems clear that the U.S. economy has started to go from the...
To boost economic growth in Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper will: -Limit government spending. -Make immigration policy more focused on immigrants that contribute to the economy. -Increase free trade. -Reduce regulatory...
According to preliminary estimates, China’s GDP in 2011 was 47.156 trillion yuan, which at the current exchange rate of 6.3138 translates into roughly $7.47 trillion. By comparison, tomorrow’s GDP report for the...
Given the fact that bond yields of most of the euro area countries that were downgraded by Standard & Poors actually fell (contrary to what one might expect), similar by the way to how U.S. treasury yields dropped after...