Sep 26 VIDEO: New U.S. $100 bills will circulate in early October .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } The AP reports on anti-counterfeiting… Continue reading
Sep 25 How seasonal swings in jobs lead to some unsexy figures Photo courtesy of Reuters/Mike Blake It's a good thing The Atlantic's Matthew O'Brien stuck around for the last presentation at the Brookings Institution's Panel on Economic Activity. The topic was, as Brookings warned reporters, the soporific seasonal adjustments to the… Continue reading
Sep 23 Rethinking the 30 year mortgage Rethinking the 30 yr mortgage http://t.co/dIc2vKfRWh great explainer by @nicktimiraos— hari sreenivasan (@hari) September 23, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 13 Gap between housing price and income in London at unprecedented levels Photo by Flickr user Julie70 Fear of a potential housing bubble emerged in London as the gap between local salaries and property prices doubled since 2009. According to a Sky News report, the average home… Continue reading
Jun 21 Watch 9:23 Exploring the Psychology of Wealth, ‘Pernicious’ Effects of Economic Inequality Exploring the Psychology of Wealth, 'Pernicious' Effects of Economic Inequality… Continue watching
Jun 06 Watch ‘Economics Is Not a Morality Play’: Paul Krugman on Managing Financial Crisis Should we have let foundering financial firms fail in 2008? Economics correspondent Paul Solman sits down with economist Paul Krugman to discuss the provocative bestseller "The Great Deformation" by David Stockman and the government's role in mediating economic meltdowns. Continue watching
Apr 17 Watch Late Bloomers Become First-Time Entrepreneurs Late Bloomers Become First-Time Entrepreneurs… Continue watching
Mar 08 Watch February Brings Drop in Unemployment, Best Job Report in Four Years Things are looking up for job seekers. The February 2013 jobs report showed the addition of 236,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.7 percent, making it the best report in four years. Ray Suarez examines the data and… Continue watching
Jan 04 2012 in Unemployment Data Now that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its final unemployment numbers for the year, let's take one last look at 2012's unemployment indicators, month-by-month. We've compiled a year's worth of our own, more-inclusive U-7 figures --… Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch The Seismic Economic and Political Changes that Transformed the American Dream The Seismic Economic and Political Changes that Transformed the American Dream… Continue watching