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Output per capita fell almost 10 percentage points below trend in the 2008 recession. It has since grown at less than 1.5%, and lost more ground relative to trend. Cumulative losses are many trillions of dollars, and growing. And the latest GDP report disappoints again, declining in the first quarter.

Germany's consumer price index fell 0.3% month-over-month in January. It's the first time the inflation rate went negative since September 2009. Deflation is when prices fall, consumers and businesses often hold back on purchases hoping for even lower prices to come. This article examines the economic risks of dropping prices and what it could mean in the future for Germany and Europe.

The eurozone could well weather Grexit-should it come to that. But would it be able to survive a serious bout of inflation that could ultimately result in other states questioning their membership? Well that's another matter entirely. Right now, the markets are focused on negotiations between Greece and its eurozone creditors.

Uranium spot prices have shown more life recently, says David Sadowski, mining equity research analyst at Raymond James, and he expects upward pressure to continue as utilities resume buying to meet future needs. In this interview, he tells The Energy Report the time is ripe to invest in uranium company stocks.

More than four years since the Great Recession ended in June 2009, the unemployment rate is 7.3%, a big improvement from the high of 10% in the fall of 2009. Unfortunately, the rate is hugely misleading: Most of that improvement was for all the wrong reasons. This is an article that focuses on the unemployment rates in USA since the 2009 Recession. By reading this article many can be learnt about why the unemployment rates are such or how healthy the labor market of USA is.

This article indicates the The Reserve Bank of India's expectations of inflation to remain near current elevated levels for the remainder of the fiscal year that ends in March.As I see ınflation is a big worry for countries and it has an important place in economics.

"R.I.P., inflation. You had a good run, but it's over now that prices are rising less than 1 percent in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, China, and Japan." Inflation is one of the main effects of economic growth in a country, indicating that the economy is in the "boom" phase. However, after a boom there will always come a recession, meaning that rates of inflation will decrease and give way to the problem of unemployment.

Here is another point of view to the possible outcomes of government interventions to inflation. In US' case it is Federal Reserve Bank who is the decision mechanism that determines the monetary policies.

According to market lore January is a good month. As bourses open to greet the new year, investors funnel in new cash and share prices rise, creating a "January effect" which the savvy try to surf. But punters seeking a quick buck have been disappointed this year, with the main stockmarket indices in the G7 economies all down.