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State of the Job
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Job market news, and tips for the world.
- Added on: Apr 13th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Josh
- Listed in: Career & Jobs Business
- Tags: work jobs do work business jobs job news job market news
Recent Posts
LinkedIn members make $1M and give back $150K to charity
Since September of 2008, LinkedIn members have earned over $1 million by participating in targeted research surveys on professional topics. Over 100,000 members from more than 85 countries have shared their experience and opinions on topics spanning...
Jeffrey Frankel responded to How To Spur Business Investment? on December 21, 2009 12:18 PM
I agree with Greg Mankiw that the dominant empirical fact about investment is its procyclical volatility (the main reason investment has been depressed for the last two years is that the economy has been depressed) and also that the rece...
How To Spur Business Investment?
Business investment remains extraordinarily weak, surely a combination of the depth of the recession and the continuing difficulty business has in obtaining credit. Greg Mankiw (here) and Bruce Bartlett (toward the bottom of his column, here) argue f...
Charles Calomiris responded to How To Spur Business Investment? on December 21, 2009 10:34 AM
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Alan J. Auerbach responded to How To Spur Business Investment? on December 21, 2009 10:27 AM
Although some observers may be unaware, recent U.S. tax policy has included frequent attempts at stimulating business fixed investment, primarily through temporary “bonus depreciation” provisions that provided immediate expensing of a fra...
When To Tighten Fiscal Policy?
A report on the federal debt burden due out today from the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform calls for delaying serious deficit and debt reduction until 2012, so as not to endanger a recovery; President Obama says he will start that debt-cutti...
