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13 Jun

Looking for Real Time Data Employment Data? Try W2 Tax Receipts

by Barry Ritholtz
The reaction after May’s disappointing jobs report was predictable: The candidates babbled, markets trembled and expectations that the...

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8 Jun

Impact of Technology on Wealth Management

by Barry Ritholtz
Financial Technology Partners is a San Francisco-based investment-banking firm focused, appropriately enough, on the financial-technology...

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8 Jun

Faster, Stronger and Cheaper: Replacing Humans with Robots

by Barry Ritholtz
China faces rising labor costs and a shortage of workers. But a government project called “replacing humans with robots” is trying to...

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5 Jun

Ranking Each Country’s Citizenship

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: The Economist

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3 Jun

Trump: Unemployment is 20%; BLS Data is Fraudulent

by Barry Ritholtz
By now, we have become almost used to a steady stream of inaccurate statements from the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Most...

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3 Jun

Unemployment Rate, 1960-2016

by Barry Ritholtz
Not a great Employment report, but the Verizon strike makes it look much worse than it is by about 35,000 workers.   Unemployment...

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31 May

Is Underemployment Underestimated? Evidence from Panel Data

by Guest Author
Is Underemployment Underestimated? Evidence from Panel Data Geng Li and Brett McCully Federal Reserve, May 16, 2016      ...

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16 May

SPQR: Italy & Greece

by Barry Ritholtz
Pain and Recovery in Southern Europe Italy is making slow progress, but Greece can’t shed its debt straitjacket. Bloomberg, May 16,...

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6 May

The Class of 2016

by Barry Ritholtz
Interesting look at millenial employment via EPI: Source: Economic Policy Institute

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6 May

Raise Wages, Kill Jobs?

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      Barry L. Ritholtz is co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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