Keystone XL Pipeline: Economics, Idealism and Politics
By EconMatters The latest last-ditch temporary fixes to avert another embarrassing political stalemate came on Saturday, 17 Dec. when the U.S. … Read more
By EconMatters The latest last-ditch temporary fixes to avert another embarrassing political stalemate came on Saturday, 17 Dec. when the U.S. … Read more
By EconMatters The Euro Zone debt crisis has certainly kept the credit rating agencies busy in the news headline. On Friday, … Read more
By EconMatters Exactly 20 years to the day after the creation of the European Union (EU) and the Euro currency, German … Read more
By EconMatters Stock markets soared after the coordinated actions on Wed. Nov. 30 from six central banks around the world — … Read more
By EconMatters Roughly 14 million people were unemployed in October, yet the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2% … Read more
By EconMatters The Euro crisis is getting deeper into the uncharted territory with bond yields surging across Europe on Friday Nov. … Read more
By EconMatters Talk about bad things leading up to other bad things. Netflix stocks plunged yet another 8% to $68.50 on … Read more
By EconMatters It looks like the initial public support and sympathy for Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is starting to wear … Read more
By EconMatters There was nothing really new out of the 2-day FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting on Nov. 1-2 without much … Read more
By EconMatters Brookings just published a new study analyzing data on neighborhood poverty from the 2005–09 American Community Surveys and Census 2000, and … Read more
By EconMatters The job market is terrible, and the situation isn’t getting any better. The U.S. national unemployment rate is stagnant … Read more
By EconMatters Shares of Netflix (NFLX) plummeted almost 35% to $77.37 in one day on Tue. Oct. 25 after reporting losing … Read more
By EconMatters Wall Street big banks, although not entirely responsible for the Great Recession, most experts agree that banks creating … Read more
By EconMatters To follow up on our last article about the Arab Spring shockwaves, we thought it’d be of interest to see what … Read more
By EconMatters BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are among the highest risk regions to have armed conflicts based on … Read more