I recently watched an online video commentary by Brian Wesbury at First Trust on basic economics (links to the videos below). What struck me about these pieces was their elegant simplicity in summaris...
(Second of two parts)
Unit labour cost (“ULCs”) is a well-known measure of international competitiveness which combines labour cost and productivity into a single measure. In general, unit labour cost...
The world is increasingly becoming a more open economic forum. As a result the inexorable march in global competition continues every year. (This is Part 1 of 2)
Nations are at war for jobs, economic ...
By Nathan Kowalski
Detroit, the cradle of the American automobile manufacturing industry, recently filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. The filing listed more than 100,000 credito...
Inertia is one of the fundamental principles of classical physics. It is often referred to as the tendency of an object to resist changes to its state rest or motion. Newton suggested that an object w...
Investors are scrambling and yanking billions from US bond funds since the Federal Reserve rattled markets with its plan to end the central bank’s unprecedented asset purchase programme. According to ...
The Industrial Revolution marked a major transformation in the way the world manufactured and produced goods. Humans largely went from hand-producing individual items to a new manufacturing paradigm i...
On Wednesday the US Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) indicated that their Quantitative Easing Programme (“QE”) (a programme where they buy Treasuries and mortgage backed securities) will be more conditiona...
By Nathan Kowalski
“Wow that cost over $20 a drink?” said a girl sitting at the table with our group.
“That’s crazy”, said another guy, peanut shells on the floor crunching beneath his feet.
“You all...
In clinical terms the extreme or irrational fear of heights is known as acrophobia. It’s derived from the Greek word meaning “peak, summit, and edge”.
In fact most of us suffer somewhat from a natura...
