Talking Macro: WREL show February 20, 2014

Here are notes from my weekly radio show on WREL Lexington, Virginia. The actual show seldom covers all of the topics I prepare, as what I d...

Toyota's Profits, Nissan's Lack

One year ago – 2012Q4 that is – Toyota lost money in North America, and made only modest amounts of money in Japan. Today is much different,...

Interest Rates and Employment: The Taper's Well Camouflaged

Protect Tapirs: http://www.tapirs.org Tapirs are well-camouflaged. So's the taper: you have to look for it. That should not be surprisin...

Mitsubishi Motors: Going, going ... gone?

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) is trumpeting record profits. I'm not convinced things are so rosy: they've also just restructur...

VW, UAW

While I prepare a post on Mitsubishi Motors (I began going through financial statements a couple weeks back) let me point to a post by Jared...

Two Further LF Graphs

While I continue to work on a blog post on Mitsubishi Motors, let me put up two further graphs on employment by age bracket, broken into (i)...

(un) Employment

The latest Current Population Survey (and Current Employment Survey) data show a labor market that barely grew, once you account for demogra...