rough buyouts. Thatdepended, in part, on the salaries of those who applied for thebuyouts by the Dec. 1 deadline. Journalists including TVreporter Bill Carter, D.C. reporter Edward Wyatt and financialcorrespondent Floyd Norris were among the high-profile list ofemployees to opt for the buyouts.
Date: Dec 16, 2014
Category: Business
Source: Google
New York Times to Fire 21 Union Employees Starting Today, Union Says
on the salaries of those who applied for the buyouts by the Dec. 1 deadline. Journalists including advertising columnist Stuart Elliott, TV reporter Bill Carter, D.C. reporter Edward Wyatt and financial correspondent Floyd Norris were among the high-profile list of employees to opt for the buyouts.
o its pre-Great Recession level, the labor force participation rate has fallen to just over 63 percent, back where it stood when Jimmy Carter was president.Meanwhile, Floyd Norris of the New York Times reports that total compensation of employees slipped to a 65-year low on Obamas watch.
Date: Apr 08, 2014
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Averages, medians and unemployment: Parsing the numbers
relative handful of outliers. Wealth and income data, for example, are notoriously skewed: According to New York Times columnist Floyd Norris, medianhousehold wealth in 2010 (as calculated from the Federal Reserves triennial Survey of Consumer Finances) was about one-sixth of average household wealth.
ting presses in a few weeks. For the first time, European and American banks are supposed to have comparable disclosures regarding assets. Their balance sheets will still be radically different, but for those who care, the comparison will be possible.Floyd Norris in The New York Times.
Housing looks good with graphs.A funny thing is happening to the United States housing market. It is getting better at an accelerating rate.And therein could lie hope for a surprisingly strong economy this year.Floyd Norris in The New York Times.
he presidential debates about the issue. Of course, its not the only topic thats been absent from the debates. Remember the euro crisis? asks Floyd Norris of The New York Times. In this weeks foreign policy debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney, the euro never came up.
Date: Oct 26, 2012
Source: Google
Wait, the US economy actually lost 1.2 million jobs in July?
The summer jobs reports are often lousy while the winter jobs reports are often good. Maybe thats because the economy is topsy-turvy. Or maybe, as Floyd Norris argues, the economy is making slow, steady progress and the seasonal adjustments are making everything look screwy:
Floyd Norris (1962-1966), Cecil Coker (1957-1961), Lowell Taylor (1961-1965), James Ryland (1957-1961), Charles Nathan (1949-1953), Robert Brasher (1957-1961)