Thu Sep 10, 2009 16:45 GMT |
With the US economy emerging out of recession, a big question will be what happens to the labour market. The US continues to record job losses every month, despite signs that real GDP is returning to positive growth, and while unemployment tends to be a lagging indicator, BMI’s Tim Cooper notes that underlying structural shifts… [Read more]
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Tags: employment, GDP, income, job creation, jobless data, labour market, lost decade, recession, U-6, unemployment, US
Posted in: General, Inflation/Deflation, Podcast, US
Fri Jul 4, 2008 8:45 GMT |
There’s a growing school of thought that it is time to buy into the Nikkei. The argument goes something like this: Japan is practically the only country in the world that is benefiting from rising inflation – because it has extricated itself from a decade of deflation. Japan is one of the most energy-efficient countries… [Read more]
Tags: consumer confidence, deflation, deregulation, DPJ, energy efficiency, Grand Realignment, household expenditures, inflation, Japan, Japanese equities, Japanese politics, jobless data, LDP, Nikkei, subprime, Tankan business survey, Yasuo Fukuda
Posted in: Asia, Equities, General