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Italy’s "Pitchfork Protests" Spread to Rome; Interior Minister Warns of "Drift Into Rebellion"
December 13, 2013 0

Italy’s "Pitchfork Protests" Spread to Rome; Interior Minister Warns of "Drift Into Rebellion"

By News Desk

Reuters reports Italy’s ‘pitchfork protests,’ in fourth day, spread to Rome . Italy’s "pitchfork" protests spread to Rome on Thursday when hundreds of students clashed with police and threw firecrackers outside a university where government ministers were attending a conference. Truckers, small businessmen, the unemployed, students and low-paid workers have staged four days of rallies in cities from Turin in the north to Sicily in the south in the name of the "pitchfork" movement, originally a loosely organized group of farmers from Sicily.

French Industrial Output Drops Unexpectedly; France Finance Minister in Complete Denial; Expect the Unexpected
December 10, 2013 0

French Industrial Output Drops Unexpectedly; France Finance Minister in Complete Denial; Expect the Unexpected

By News Desk

MarketWatch reports French Industrial Output Drops Unexpectedly . French industrial output dropped unexpectedly in October for the second month in a row, data from national statistics bureau Insee showed Tuesday, providing a further indication of a weak start to the final quarter of 2013 in the euro zone. Industrial production in the currency bloc’s second largest economy fell 0.3% in October from September, when it also fell 0.3%, Insee said.

Beneath the Headline Numbers, Not a Good Jobs Report
December 6, 2013 0

Beneath the Headline Numbers, Not a Good Jobs Report

By News Desk

For further discussion of income distribution, please see What’s "Really" Behind Gross Inequalities In Income Distribution? BLS Birth-Death Model Black Box The BLS Birth/Death Model is an estimation by the BLS as to how many jobs the economy created that were not picked up in the payroll survey