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4 Mar

The Great Minimum Wage Experiment

by Barry Ritholtz
We’ll Find Out Soon If Higher Minimum Wages Kill Jobs But don’t jump to conclusions before the data are in. Bloomberg, March...

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26 Feb

The Ongoing, Fraudulent Assault on Seattle’s Min Wage

by Invictus
@TBPInvictus (Thanks to Michael Hiltzik  (@hiltzikm) at the LA Times for his recent piece, which is linked to below. It is on his work...

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15 Feb

Donald Trump and Other Republicans Are Unemployment “Truthers”

by Bruce Bartlett
Bruce Bartlett is an economist who has worked on Capitol Hill, the White House and the Treasury Department. ~~~ Among Donald Trump’s...

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10 Feb

Global Misery Index

by Barry Ritholtz
click for complete graphic and analysis Source: Bloomberg

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8 Feb

Private Sector Payroll Jobs

by Barry Ritholtz
Nice couple of charts from Calculated Risk showing private sector payroll growth under the past 6 presidents:   Source: Calculated...

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5 Feb

Increase in Occupation by Wages

by Barry Ritholtz
At first, this was a high wage/high education expansion. Now the expansion is broadening out to also benefit low and middle-income...

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2 Feb

Minimum Wage Update

by Invictus
@TBPInvictus here: If you’ve been paying attention to the ongoing minimum wage debate, there have been some recent developments....

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8 Jan

Labor Productivity, Utilization and GDP Per Capita

by Barry Ritholtz
Perfect for NFP day: Great chart looking at 3 key metrics by country:     Source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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4 Jan

Small Businesses Get Big Tax Break

by Barry Ritholtz
Hidden in the back of the big omnibus bill that passed just days before Congress broke for the holidays was an important new change in...

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20 Dec

Hypocrisy, Perry is Thy Name

by Invictus
@TBPInvictus here: I recently put up some commentary about Mark Perry’s table purporting to show that euro nations without a...

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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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