Last Friday’s jobs report from the US Department of Labor elicited a barrage of gloomy headlines. The New York Times emphasized “weak” jobs growth and fretted that “hiring challenges that have bedevi… (View Post)

The likelihood of anyone with the means to retire to another European country not being able to is more than unlikely. (View Post)

If I'm reading this correctly then there have been some pretty big revisions to the trade data: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/datasets/totaltradebalanceuktrad… (View Post)

The media reporting of Christmas was bizarre. Everyone I knew was planning on having a quiet week off work whereas to the media Christmas involved a continuous stream of dinner parties for a differen… (View Post)

Hasn't responsibility for them shifted to the more complacently lethargic ? (View Post)