I dunno, lower auto comprehensive insurance premiums? So many French cars were torched by Muslims the French got tired of walking to work? As far as social taxes, all of Europe is killing itself with kindness. I don't think any Brit has to worry ...

Brexit endangers U.S.-UK trade as some U.S. firms could move: report

Production Capacity was 80.1% two years ago. Makes me wonder why so many people were hired to stand around in under-utilized factories.

U.S. Factory Production Drops for First Time in Three Months

Retail Sales are seasonally adjusted Major Report SA or NSA ADP SA Auto Sales SA Building Perms SA Business Inv SA Capacity Util SA Case/Shiller both Chicago PMI NSA Construction SA CPI SA Durable Goods SA Empire Mfg SA Existing Homes NSA Factory ...

Retail Sales in U.S. Increased Less Than Forecast in November

"nearly 40 percent of American firms considering moving" "considering" is prudent "moving" is another matter Anyone "considering" filling in the chunnel with concrete?

Brexit endangers U.S.-UK trade as some U.S. firms could move: report

They're buying foreign goods. US capacity utilization @ 75%

Retail Sales in U.S. Increased Less Than Forecast in November

I guess the left has already forgotten about their fuhrer's $7 trillion debt and the never ending golf vacation. Obama is boarding the big jet for Hawaii on friday (yeah, no pollution there). It's another excellent Christmas vacation ($85 million in ...

Trump picks former Texas Governor Perry as energy secretary

Bad news for the Caliphate

EU won't open new Turkey membership chapters in current circumstances: Brussels

Exxon CEO as State, Perry as Energy, Keystone-xl ... DONE! Next Ice Age averted.

Trump picks former Texas Governor Perry as energy secretary

Two years of bureaucratic dithering isn't enough. They should wait until the children graduate college.

UK's Hammond: It would be helpful to have a longer period to manage Brexit

Earnings are pushing stocks higher.

How to Make This Stock-Market Rally Last

"China's aging population is already shrinking, which means greater financial pressure on those working to support those who are not." Is that what it means?

Meet the Ma family: How millennials are changing the way China thinks about money

I guess someone finally explained to Gates that solving the problems of energy technology is more important than solving the problems of Africa.

Bill Gates Is Heading a $1 Billion Clean Energy Venture Fund

Keynesian theory deserves the same place in history as Marxism. Forcing people to tread in the big government hamster wheel doesn't improve their lives. Heavy government borrowing in production cycle dips can smooth out employment dips but only at ...

Keynesian economics: is it time for the theory to rise from the dead?

If Trump pushes toward higher employment (present US employment is 7 million more employed than Dubya at his peak), it will put pressure on higher wages, inflation, and evoke Fed rate hikes. That would move the EURUSD toward parity... shifting ...

ECB taper with a twist, Italian risks hover over EUR

EURUSD is a currency PAIR. There are two sides to it. It isn't just about the euro, it is also about the dollar. Discussion of parity is understanding the direction of the currency pair trend. It's a swing trading discussion, not a day trading ...

EUR/USD: ECB Delivered A 'Bazooka'; Stay Short & Sell Rallies - ANZ

[quote=DonFF;9330542]Its not productive vs non-productive but the strong vs the weak. Nonsense. It's non performance on some bank loans. Some banks will need a loan to cover their bad loans. A few Italian bank loan officers might get sacked. Renzi ...

Italy on the Brink

Hitler would last about 30 seconds in the nuclear age. Despotic fear is over estimated. Biggest problem now is the inefficiency of transferring too much wealth from the productive to the non productive.

Italy on the Brink

The program of 60b/month until "at least December 2017" or "beyond if necessary." And if lack of progress they intend to increase the program in size and/or duration. Those are FACTS from the ECB website... I don't know what you're talking about. ...

ECB Monetary policy decisions

He made it clear that tapering WASN'T discussed. 60b/mo for at least 12 months (with an open ended commitment). That's why the Euro is down 1.25% and still falling. (Dragi used the term "prolonged period". Reporters challenged his statements and he ...

ECB Monetary policy decisions

Are you saying 20 months of bureaucratic paper shuffling is too much, or too little? I'm just trying to get a handle on your bureaucratic perspective. Oh, we have our bureaucracy to contend with as well. There are over one million bureaucrats in the ...

EU's Barnier says they are ready to receive UK notification of withdrawal