Broad Oak Magazine

In Britain, there are 28.89 million employed - 72.5% of the "people of working age"; median earnings approach £25,000 . In China, ...

A thought-provoking piece from Mark Thoma , in which he argues that many jobs that have gone deserved to go; it's the creation of new on...

... the economic problems of the future will not be about growth but about something more nettlesome: the ineluctable increase in the number...

Interactive WSJ diachronic unemployment map here . (htp: Tim Iacono )

Just caught a minute of BBC1's Question Time , chaired by the garrulous and self-regarding David Dimbleby. Self-regarding literally, thi...

Michael Panzner finds another useful article, this time by Laura Coffey on making contingency plans for losing your job. I sent a circular t...

Market Ticker: The Recession of 2008 Karl Denninger reports that the US unemployment rate has hit 5%. He thinks - and it's certainly pla...

India's leading car-maker Tata seems likeliest to take over Jaguar and Land Rover. The fiddle plays, Rome burns.

Michael Panzner turns his attention to the human implications of recession, as I have been doing for some time, most recently here , here a...

... as the ironic (though barely intelligible) Hedghoppers Anonymous song went. For while Japan and China are selling down their holding of ...

I have had a comment (on an earlier piece about sovereign wealth funds) from a Shromon Das, who gives his view on SWFs here and a follow-up...

That's the analysis of Kathy Lien at DailyFX.com yesterday: These days, cash is a valuable commodity since a liquidity crisis means a l...

I have already referred today to Faber's interview on Minesite.com and would like to pull out one or two strands: Faber thinks "......

China has its problems. Monsters and Critics , quoting UPI, says that 3.5 million jobs could go if the yuan appreciates much more against th...

A thoughtful article by Thomas Brewton yesterday here explains that US inflation is also causing inflation in China. While America sheds job...

Altough immigration can keep down the living standards of poorer workers, it's not possible to undo what has happened so far, as this s...

Following my earlier comments on Alan Greenspan's enthusiasm for immigration, yesterday's Daily Reckoning gives Martin Hutchinson&#...

The Strategic Economic Dialogue talks have concluded, to be resumed in another 6 months. Judging from Business Week's report , not much ...

We're waiting to hear much from the Western side on the talks, but see here for a Chinese-angled general background to the series. Howe...

China is taking in $20 billion a month of foreign capital, according to this 9 March article from the International Herald Tribune. It has...