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    Jobs – Where to Next?

    March 7, 2012

    This week we will get our next insight into the employment outlook. Today’s ADP employment report – they tell us about the number of people added or subtracted from all they private sector payrolls they process for businesses – gets us off to a good start. ADP managed payrolls added 216,000 new jobs last month. […]

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    Large Or Small: Does it Matter?

    March 6, 2012

    There is a thriving industry at the moment discussing the importance of size in business. More to the point: it is the relative lack of size that seems, to some, to be the epicenter of competitive failure in Europe’s sickly peripheral economies. The Economist has waded in with its usual straight from the textbook appraisal. […]

    Economics / Case Shiller Index, conference board, consumer confidence, consumption, home prices, real estate, recovery /

    Housing And Confidence: Mixed Messages

    February 28, 2012

    I am busily preparing for the WEA conference on ethics next week, but today’s mixed news is worth a brief comment. Clearly the housing news is not great. The latest Case Shiller index report released this morning brings 2011 to a dismal close. Prices fell 1.1% in December, meaning that the year as a while […]

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