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What Lessons from Part-Timers about the US Labor Market?
June 15th, 2015
The US unemployment rate has been in the range of 5.4-5.5% since February, which is clearly a vast improvement from its peak of 10% in October 2009. But of course, no single number will capture the health of the ...
Egypt signs €8bn power deal with Siemens
June 4th, 2015
Egypt yesterday signed an €8 billion (Dh33bn) contract with Siemens to increase power generation capacity by 50 per cent, which is expected to provide a boost to the economy. The contract, which was signed in Berlin by the Egyptian ...
What will Opec do about the oil supply?
June 3rd, 2015
With oil prices down some 40% in a year, the oil ministers of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) are once again getting together in Vienna this week to decide whether to cut output or keep pumping ...
Federal court in Florida issued a Consent Order against Inter-Global Currency & Precious Metals and its owner
April 28th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that a federal court in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida issued a Consent Order against Defendants Inter-Global Currency & Precious Metals, LLC (IGCPM) of Pompano Beach, Florida, and its owner, manager, and controlling person Stavros ...
Lifting potential growth in the euro area
April 23rd, 2015
Speech by Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Welt-Währungskonferenz Potential growth and monetary policy The euro area economy seems now to be turning the corner. Both the hard and soft data suggest that ...
Greek PM puts opposition on spot, reveals little on reform list, creditor talks
March 31st, 2015
As representatives of the Greek government and the country’s international creditors continued tough talks on a proposed list of Greek reforms in Brussels, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressed Parliament in a speech that attacked the political opposition and failed ...
Should Individual Tax Returns Be Public Information?
March 30th, 2015
My guess is that if you asked Americans if their income taxes should be public information, the answers would mostly run the spectrum from “absolutely not” to “hell, no.” But the idea that tax returns should be confidential and ...
Predicting the Future With Russia’s Economic Nostradamus, Mikhail Dmitriyev
March 19th, 2015
Mikhail Dmitriyev, president of the New Economic Growth consultancy, is often described as “Russia’s top brain.” He studied in Leningrad in the ’80s and took part in economics discussion clubs with the people who transformed Russia into a market economy, including Anatoly Chubais, the architect of Russia’s privatization ...
Israel election: Netanyahu claims victory as his party takes lead
March 18th, 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared headed for another term as preliminary numbers Wednesday showed his party in the lead. With nearly all votes counted, Netanyahu’s Likud party has at least 29 seats in the 120 seat Knesset, according ...
IG Group Holdings PLC: Third Quarter Trading Update
March 17th, 2015
IG Group, a global leader in online trading, today issues the following Trading Update for the three months to 28 February 2015, the third quarter of its 2015 financial year. The trends and figures highlighted below refer to this ...
