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...payroll number is a "coincident indicator": it tells what's happening now, or at least what was happening in the very recent past. It sometimes misses incipient upturns, because new jobs are created by small businesses, which aren't counted in the payroll survey. But there are no signs that anything like that might be happening now. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
Shaping the Skyline But mosques, and their neighbors, aren't always so quiet. Particularly in Europe, mosques have become the architectural equivalent of the veil: visible signs of Islam's presence and thus sites for tension between Muslims and non-Muslim traditionalists. A recent report from the London-based Institute of Race Relations chronicles scores of campaigns against plans to build mosques across Europe. In 2007, a petition posted on British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's website calling for the government to scrap plans to build a mega-mosque on an 18-acre (7 ha) plot near the site...
There are other drawbacks to these employment measures, subsidized or not. The biggest is that only workers on fixed full-time employment contracts tend to be covered by the schemes. But they aren't necessarily the most vulnerable to job cuts in hard times; rather, it's the millions of part-time or temporary workers on more precarious labor contracts who are the first to lose their jobs. Numbers vary widely from country to country, but in Spain, for example, around one in three workers are in temporary employment. Unemployment there has soared to more than 14%, up from...
...Easy Econ 101 relies on prices to promote change, and it's true that $4 gas got us to drive less. But prices aren't everything...
...kind of implosion seen in Eastern Europe nearly 20 years ago. It's a beguiling prospect. But however much the world may want to see 23 million people released from the grip of a detestable regime, the possibility discomfits some South Koreans. Reeling from the global economic crisis, they aren't sure they can afford sudden reunification. And it absolutely petrifies China, which likes having a buffer state not allied with the U.S. between itself and the South. (See pictures of Kim's rise to power...