Showing posts with label Great Recession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Recession. Show all posts
Sunday, May 22, 2022

The Market Is Melting Down and People Are Feeling It. ‘My Stomach Is Churning All Day.’

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I don't have to take disbursement from my Roth IRA or my 403(b) until I'm 69, which is still a ways off. Hence my funds, with luck, ...
Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Triumph of Injustice

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At Amazon, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay .
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

A Second Round of Coronavirus Layoffs

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Well, I hope I'm not laid off, sheesh. At WSJ, " A Second Round of Coronavirus Layoffs Has Begun. Few Are Safe ": Layoff...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Element Capital Buys Billions of Dollars of Treasury Securities

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Hmm... This is pretty interesting. At WSJ, " An Obscure Hedge Fund Is Buying Tens of Billions of Dollars of U.S. Treasurys ": ...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

$15.00 Minimum Wage Laws Speed the Arrival of Robots in Restaurants

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Anyone with half a brain saw this stuff coming. Businesses will do what they need to do to stay in business. At big corporate chains like Mc...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Puerto Rico Economy Hammered by High Minimum Wage Laws

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Pretty fascinating. A real case study in how the minimum wage hurts workers, to say nothing of the national (Puerto Rican) economy. At W...
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Noncompetes

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I've never heard of this before, although they're banned in California except for limited circumstances. Interesting too. I can see ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Ben Bernanke Struggled to Boost U.S. Economic Growth

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Bernanke's stepping down at the end of the month, and the Fed's supposed to ease off its economic stimulus policies, but we'll s...