Green Shoots & Leaves
Friday, March 12th, 2010
(Picture from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)
Young Oklahoma mother; age 18, penniless, stranded in Imperial Valley, California. (Circa March 1937)
AP (spit) - Canada’s unemployment rate has slipped to 8.2 percent as the economy gained 21,000 jobs.
Financial Times - FedEx warns on US recovery
Gallup - Gallup Daily: Obama Job Approval (not good for the messiah)
Market Watch - Steep drop in credit-card balances driven by companies charging off bad debt
Bloomberg - U.S. Economy: Sales Rise as Buyers Overcome Snow, Job Concerns
Zero Hedge - UniCredit Bank Warns Of Plunge In Sterling And Gilts, As Britain Is Next Country “To Be Pummeled By Investors”
The Market Ticker - What The Lehman Report Proves: Financial Insolvency
Before It’s News - Haiti presents Obama with $14bn Bill for vision of a rebuilt Caribbean paradise
The Automatic Earth - A good deal on a bridge in Brooklyn
Econ Browser - Durable Goods and the Collapse of Global Trade












