Submitted by CARPE DIEM

Vinyl’s back at Amazon.com. Well, maybe it never left, but it’s got its own section now.
Vinyl featured on CBS Sunday Morning.
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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
From WorldMapper, International Immigrant Destinations (country size on map represents relative immigration inflow)

Net Flow of Global Migration from the NY Times (click to enlarge).

Nearly 190 million people, about 3% of the world’s population, lived outside their country of birth in 2005. The NY Times presents a look at the flow of people […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Emerging Markets Rev Up Toyota Sales–Toyota’s profit for the fourth quarter jumped 7.5% from the previous year as booming sales in China, Africa and South America offset declining US sales and a stronger yen, the Japanese car maker reported yesterday.
Overseas Snack Sales Help PepsiCo Meet Expectations–The snacks business registered double-digit growth in […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

CBS 60 MINUTES–Should the U.S. Mint continue to produce pennies and nickels whose metal content is worth more than their face value? Why mint the penny, when it costs $134 million to make $80 million worth of what most people consider nuisance coins (see chart above of rising copper prices)?
The situation irks […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
New Zealand’s unemployment rate falls to record low 3.4%.
Switzerland’s unemployment rate fall to more than 5-year low of 2.6%.
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Submitted by unsettling economics
Esther-Mirjam Sent has a work in progress regarding how Herbert Simon made an ass of himself in debating with progressive mathematicians, who did not approve of Samuel Huntington joining the National Academy of Sciences. She included two wonderful quotes from one of the mathematicians, Neal Koblitz regarding economist misuse of mathematics.
Sent, Esther-Mirjam. […]

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Submitted by EconWeekly
The latest economic data show that output growth has weakened and unemployment is creeping up. The government is worried, with good reason, that the economy is going through a pronounced slowdown, perhaps even a recession. To limit the damage, Congress yesterday approved a battery of fiscal measures. By my reckoning, however, the plan […]

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Submitted by Econbrowser
The Oil Drum calls our attention to Satellite O’er the Desert, a website devoted to trying to interpret Google satellite images from Saudi Arabia.
Satellite O’er the Desert is produced by someone calling himself “Joules Burn” (who says scientists lack a sense of humor)? JB was inspired by the careful effort by Oil Drum’s […]

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Submitted by Businomics Blog
One the candidates said he would “jump start the economy.” I can’t remember which one, because I switched to Pro Wrestling for a dose of reality. The image the candidates offer is that of a skilled operator maneuvering the levers of the economy from the oval office. Kind of […]

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