unemployment

Nearly 30% of the Spanish population is currently classified by the Unión General de Trabajadores (General Union of Workers, or UGT) as “at risk” of poverty. Any may consider joining the estimated 700,000 Spaniards who have fled the country to find marginal employment elsewhere. Most will opt to stay, however, knowing full well that that they are

The number of unemployed young people worldwide between the ages of 15 and 24 will rise to 71 million this year, increasing for the first time since 2013. This is the news from the annual World Employment and Social Outlook report released this week by the International Labour Organization (ILO)

We often show trended data relating to financials, but one sobering trend that we have come across is something entirely different - death by suicides. We have discussed the fact that many bankers have been committing suicide, but the overall trend has increased dramatically over the past 15 years.

By Bill Mitchell On May 27, 2016, Statistics Iceland (the national statistical agency) released the news – Iceland economy to grow by 4.3% in 2016....

By Maurice Allais : Nobel Prize in economics Speech given at the UNESCO April 10th 1999 During the last fifty years, all the research I have...

By Vasiliki Mitsiniotou ATHENS More than 4 million young Europeans are jobless and not enough is being done to help what is becoming a lost generation,...

by Conn Hallinan As Turkey gears up for one of the most important elections in its recent history, the country appears, as one analyst noted,...