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Economics / consumer confidence, jobs, recession, recovery, unemployment /

Jobs Market: Continued Improvement

March 9, 2012

This morning’s jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics makes for some quite dull reading. The headline is that the economy added 227,000 new jobs in February, which is slightly more than analysts expected, but is not a terrific burst of growth either. Indeed, so much the same as January’s report is February’s that […]

Economics / GDP, jobs, recovery, unemployment, wages /

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. […]

Commentary, Economics /

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. […]

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