Category Archives: Economy

Trade Graphs

[google-translator] Trade with China, 1985-2013 (in millions of dollars) Total Trade Deficit, 1980-2013 (in millions of dollars) Source: U.S. Department of Commerce

Limits to Growth

[google-translator] Report (in English, .pdf file) on limits to growth on financial markets and consequential impacts, presented by the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI), Anglia Ruskin University.

Benefits of New Construction

• Residential construction has a positive, direct impact on the U.S. economy. • For each new single-family home that is built, NAHB (National Association of Home Builders) estimates that three jobs are created. • Jobs are generated in the industries where lumber, concrete, lighting fixtures, heating and cooling equipment, and … Continue reading →

Low Paying Jobs

Extensive study (in English, .pdf file) by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, TX describing the loss over the last 20 years of middle-skill jobs in the U.S. labor market, a “barbell economy.”

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