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10 Jun

Seattle Redux: Misunderstanding Seasonal Adjustments

by Invictus
@TBPInvictus here. About a decade ago, the city of Seattle undertook to raise its minimum wage, over time, to $15/hour. Massive credit...

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8 Dec

Monthly NFPs Are Rounding Errors

by Barry Ritholtz
    You may have missed the most important data point in today’s Employment report. It wasn’t that Nonfarm payrolls...

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7 Sep

RTO Gets Serious: October 1

by Barry Ritholtz
    If ever a week was ripe for delaying your return to the office, it was this one. Hurricane Idalia cleared out the weather...

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1 Sep

Unemployment Up 0.3% = Fed on Hold

by Barry Ritholtz
  The Fed is done. It’s unimaginable that they will do anything at the September FOMC meeting, and barring any radical change...

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2 Jun

Change Your Perspective

by Barry Ritholtz
  The relevance of perspective to investing is self-evident. When confronted by a problem or challenge, it is useful to change your...

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4 May

Want More Jobs? Raise the Minimum Wage

by Barry Ritholtz
I have been writing about issues with the minimum wage for (it seems like) decades. During that time, consuming lots of academic...

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17 Apr

Is 50% the New (Metro) RTO?

by Barry Ritholtz
  I mentioned a few weeks ago how much better Europe‘s return to office rate was doing versus ours: 90+% RTO, while the USA is...

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10 Apr

Help Wanted!

by Barry Ritholtz
  Nonfarm payrolls came out Friday, and once again they impressed with their underlying strength: 236,000 new workers were added in...

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29 Mar

Of Course WFH is “Really Working”

by Barry Ritholtz
  Normally, I am a fan of Steve Rattner’s work. The former Obama “Car Czar” makes great charts and seems to be a...

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20 Feb

Macro Snapshot / St. Louis Fed

by Barry Ritholtz
Very useful dashboard via the St. Louis Fed, which maintains the fabulous FRED database. With a clean and simple interface, it puts all...

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  • About Barry Ritholtz

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

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