Topic: National Bureau Of Economic Research

The Stimulus Complex

This is the worst Labor Day for American labor in decades, maybe since the Great Depression. Unemployment is at 9.5 percent (as of July), and if we...
Where do small businesses get their capital? Not from the sources you think. . Small businesses are more sensitive to the contraction of bank...

How Student Debt Will Ruin Your Life

In my book Debt-Free U: How I Paid For An Outstanding College Education Without Loans, Scholarships, Or Mooching Off My Parents, I show families...
Bloomberg has an article today with the provocative title "Bond Yields Showing No Economic Spoils for Republicans." Political posturing aside, the...
The Conference Board reported Tuesday morning that consumer confidence declined in July for the second straight month. Worse, consumers'...
Those predicting double dip recession may be helping to cause one by raising consumer anxietyThey're a minority, but a vocal one, and they're hovering like storm clouds over a brittle recovery.They're the Double Dippers — the politicians, economists

How prayer prevents drinking

A recent study supports an interesting approach to curbing alcohol consumption: regular prayer. In surveys, people who reported praying more often...
Signs of stalling economic rebound raise questions about definition of 'double-dip' recessionConcerns are rising that the economy is at risk of slipping into a "double-dip" recession.High unemployment, Europe's debt crisis, a slowdown in China, a teeterin

Revisions, divisions slow NBER's recession call

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The prominent economists who determine the dates when U.S. recessions begin and end have yet to agree on what seems to be a foregone conclusion on Wall Street: the recession is over.The National Bureau of Economic Research's ...

US recession not over: official panel

The US economy remains in recession, despite positive signs of growth, because the data are too preliminary to be reliable, the official US arbiter of business cycles said Monday.The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) said its business cycle-dati