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Trade Deficit $48.8B
1 day ago
by analyst bear
The trade deficit for the month of December widened to a six month high to print at $48.8B from $47.1B in November 2011. The median estimate was expected to print at $48.5B and for all of 2011 the deficit grew 12% to print at $558B. American companies bought more consumer households, automobiles/par ...
AnalystBear - analystbear.com
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Trade Deficit Jumped 3.7% in December 2011
1 day ago
by danielsaniski
The US trade deficit increased $1.7 billion (3.7%) in December to -$48.8 billion. This is surprising, given the details from our major trade partners. Imports from China declined $4 billion (10.8%) to $32.8 billion while exports to China decreased by a much smaller $230 million to $9.7 billion. Impo ...
Data360 - data360.wordpress.com ·  3 references
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Peak Oil in the Rear View Mirror; Geothermal in the Headlights
1 day ago
by leslielang
Richard Ha writes: Last week Wally Ishibashi and I gave a presentation to the Hawaii County Council. There's a video of our talk up now on local channel 52, where it will repeat from time to time. Wally spoke about the Geothermal Working Group Report we gave to the legislature. I talked about "Peak ...
Ha Ha Ha! - hahaha.hamakuasprings.com · 26 references
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Debt Beats the Economy in a Growth Race
1 day ago
by Bill Bonner
Get out your chopsticks! Brush up on your sushi! Learn to read backwards and upside down! Yes...we're going to Japan! The gist of the Japanese situation is this: The bubble burst in 1990. But rather than let their big businesses go belly up, the Japanese used every trick in the book. Counter- cyclic ...
The Daily Reckoning Australia - dailyreckoning.com.au · Rank: 16,971 · 7 references
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Oh, So You Noticed That Too, Ezra?
2 days ago
by State of Thought
Back in January and February of 2011, I wrote a couple posts about the lack of evidence for the right-wing assertion that cutting top marginal tax rates would somehow help our job growth. (See " Tax Rates and GDP Growth" and " Chained to Real: Tax Rates, Inflation-adjusted GDP Measures, and the Diff ...
State of Thought - thoughtstate.blogspot.com · 3 references
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