News and events
List of news and events
Quarterly Economics news - Fourth quarter 2011
The French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal once said that contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Considering that most national and international news has been fi lled with contradictions for the past few years, this perspective gives us hope that not all is lost....
Quarterly Economics news - Third quarter 2011
Gone are the days of a sure thing - nothing moves in a straight line anymore. This sentiment was reflected in the August and September consumer confidence numbers released by The Conference Board, which plummeted as pessimism about the economic environment re-emerged...
Quarterly Economics news - Second quarter 2011
Two years after the official end of the recession, economic recovery is still sputtering. The latest numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that U.S. unemployment remained at 9.1% for May, and closed the quarter at 9.2% after a disappointing jobs report...
Quarterly Economics news - First quarter 2011
The first quarter of 2011 was, in one word, tumultuous. The major earthquake that struck Japan, political unrest in the Middle East, the European debt crisis and signs of weakness in the housing market contributed to volatility in the financial markets...
Member of
