US Economy

Warren Buffet on housing, acquisition and more

7:16 a.m. Sun 28 Feb 2010

The latest Berkshire Hathaway investment letter has Buffet’s usual thought provoking and fun comments on everything from house prices …

Overnight markets

7:11 a.m. Tue 03 Nov 2009

The Nikkei 225 is down 2.3% so far this morning, and other Asian markets have been mixed. The other …

US long term unemployment

8:44 a.m. Sun 01 Nov 2009

Economist Mark Thoma has a posted a graph of long (6 months plus) unemployment in the US. The graph has …

US employment lowest in decade

5:54 a.m. Wed 08 Jul 2009

The increase in unemployment in the US is the largest for decades with non-farm payrolls reversing all the employment growth …