News
Washington Times | ‘Cloud’ expected to create a million jobs in U.S.
The growing move to “cloud computing,” in which consumers and businesses store their data, applications and resources online instead of on their own systems, is expected to create more than a million American jobs by 2015, according to a new study from Microsoft.
Econ Comments & Analysis
Washington Times | Job-killing madness
Most people intuitively understand that job creation requires capital investment, but many in the Obama administration and in Congress seem to have missed this basic fact of economic life.
Blogs
WSJ | Vital Signs: Slowing Services Hiring
U.S. services businesses slowed their pace of hiring in February from January. The Institute for Supply Management’s seasonally adjusted Services Employment Index was 55.7 in February, down 1.7 points from the previous month.
Political Calculations | Gasoline Prices and the Unemployment Rate
A story in two pictures, covering January 1976 (the earliest year for which we have average inflation-adjusted monthly retail motor gasoline prices in the U.S.) through February 2012
