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3 Blessings in the Slumping Labor Market
Tweet Share on Facebook April 5, 2013 CommentThe job market is cooling and the stock market has the blues. But this pause in the economic recovery comes with a few upsides.
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Wall Street Grows Bearish
Tweet Share on Facebook April 4, 2013 CommentSomething hasn't felt quite right for the last few weeks, even though the stock market has been hitting new record highs and other economic indicators have been surprisingly upbeat.
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How Japan's New Stimulus Will Affect the U.S. Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook April 4, 2013 CommentThe Federal Reserve's easy-money policies are becoming infectious. First Europe followed suit, to some extent. Now Japan is attempting its own shock-and-awe monetary policy.
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CEO Tweets We'd Love to See
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2013 CommentThe Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped into the 21st century and declared that CEOs and other executives can officially release corporate information on social-media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. There's still one problem, though: Most CEOs are dull and guarded, at least when they know they're speaking to the public.
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How a Second Korean War Would Harm the U.S. Economy
Tweet Share on Facebook April 3, 2013 CommentEvery nation that takes on the U.S. military loses. So the armchair generals gaming out a war on the Korean peninsula typically assume that if fighting erupted, North Korea could bloody the South but would quickly be crushed as American forces and their South Korean allies retaliated with overwhelming force.
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Immigration Reform Won't Protect These Workers
Tweet Share on Facebook April 2, 2013 CommentAs a big immigration reform package moves through the Washington meat grinder, labor groups are trying to protect lower-skilled workers from losing jobs to a new stream of legal immigrants. But it may be a losing battle.
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European Job Woes Make America Look Brilliant
Tweet Share on Facebook April 2, 2013 Comment
One recurring theme about the U.S. economy is that it's sort of lousy, but better than a lot of other places. Europe in particular is making the United States look like a standout performer these days.
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Immigration Reform Could Draw More Illegal Workers, Not Fewer
Tweet Share on Facebook April 1, 2013 CommentAll sides in the fraught debate over immigration reform want to reduce the flow of illegal workers into the United States. But the framework for a deal that's forming could ultimately draw more illegal workers, especially if the economy improves.
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How a 10-Year-Old Helped Create the HondaVac
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2013 CommentWhy didn't I think of that?
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Consumer Confidence Is All Over The Map
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2013 CommentDo economists know anything at all about consumers?
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Rick Newman
The global economy is mysterious, even scary. Chief Business Correspondent Rick Newman demystifies it and explains what matters to you. Rick is the author of Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success and the co-author of two other books: Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11, and Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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