On the one hand, US jobs growth is quite strong And while Canada climbed out of its recession this week… …Alberta’s labor market, on the other hand, didn’t share in the wealth (thanks, OPEC) On the one hand, euro zone unemployment keeps falling On the other hand, French unemployment is near a record high (which might help explain why eurozone inflation has been so stubbornly low) On the one hand, commodity-dependent Australia saw a nice pickup in GDP growth On the other hand, commodity-dependent Brazil is spiraling deeper into recession On the one hand, spendthrift Germans are shopping a little less On the other hand, the wallet-shy Japanese were a little looser in October
