Busted: The Sad Data Manipulation of Prof Mark Perry
@TBPInvictus here: It was exactly one year ago – here – that I penned my first piece on Seattle’s then-new (just going...
Karma Still a Bitch: Seattle Min Wage Edition
@TBPInvictus here (second time today!): Although it bears absolutely no relevance to the city of Seattle proper, AEI’s Mark Perry...
No Cure for Stupid: Seattle Min Wage Edition
@TBPInvictus here: The New York Post’s editorial board apparently cares very little for factual data that disagree with their...
Emerald City Minimum Wage Shenanigans
@TBPInvictus The recent piece by AEI “scholar” Mark Perry on Seattle’s minimum wage – see here – has...
The Ongoing, Fraudulent Assault on Seattle’s Min Wage
@TBPInvictus (Thanks to Michael Hiltzik (@hiltzikm) at the LA Times for his recent piece, which is linked to below. It is on his work...
Minimum Wage Update
@TBPInvictus here: If you’ve been paying attention to the ongoing minimum wage debate, there have been some recent developments....
Recession Calls Are Premature
Invictus here: There are those of us, like me, who are always looking at numbers and data. It’s just in our DNA. What do the data...
Hypocrisy, Perry is Thy Name
@TBPInvictus here: I recently put up some commentary about Mark Perry’s table purporting to show that euro nations without a...
More Minimum Wage Stupidity
@TBPInvictus In his latest screed against the minimum wage, Mark Perry goes international in an attempt to demonstrate that countries...
To Raise, Or Not To Raise…
@TBPInvictus here: I’m not an economist, but I count several very good ones among my friends. (Exciting, right? Note to self: get...