The muscle behind the U.S. economic expansion is the same as the recovery’s weakness, and it lies in one word: Mexico. Since the low in December 2009, employment in the U.S. has increased by 13.6 million workers. Forty-three percent of that growth, or 5.9 million workers, came from Hispanics — some born in the U.S., others immigrants. Mexico is …

  The longer I work in the news media, the more I notice a problem with the way economics interacts with the world at large. Just to cite one example, economists often don’t take politics into account. As a result, econ models leave out important pieces, and the advice of economists often falls on deaf ears or is seen as …

  AFP Credit growth to the private sector in the euro area was steady in August, European Central Bank (ECB) data showed on Tuesday, boosting expectations that the bank will refrain from adding firepower to monetary policy for now. Many of the European Central Bank’s measures aim to make access to credit easier, allowing people and businesses to invest and …