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14 Sep

Median Incomes Are Finally Improving (Charts)

by Barry Ritholtz
Some fascinating data out on the long awaited improvement in middle incomes in America. The past year have seen the biggest recent gains...

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8 Sep

Can’t Find Qualified Applicants? Raise Your Pay!

by Barry Ritholtz
Having Trouble Hiring? Try Paying More Job-market data suggests that employer demand may have caught up with labor supply. Bloomberg,...

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26 Aug

Fiscal and Macroeconomic Effects of Government Wages Reform

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24 Aug

Labor Compensation and Labor Productivity: Recent Recoveries...

by Guest Author
Labor Compensation and Labor Productivity: Recent Recoveries and the Long-Term Trend by B. Ravikumar and Lin Shao Economic Synopses, No....

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9 Aug

$7.25 of pay keeps the FLSA away

by Guest Author
$7.25 of pay keeps the FLSA away as suggested by Meaulnes Kenwood FRED Blog, August 8, 2016     View on GeoFRED® In 1938, the...

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25 Jul

Why Are We Paying CEOs for How Well the Stock Market Does?

by Barry Ritholtz
CEOs Are Paid Fortunes Just to Be Average Executives who deliver market-matching results should be compensated as if they were low-cost...

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18 Jul

When Executive Compensation Exploded

by Barry Ritholtz
The precise moment in the 1990s when CEO pay suddenly shot up:   Source: Planet Money   Episode 682: When CEO Pay Exploded...

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14 Jul

How Fast is CEO Compensation Rising?

by Barry Ritholtz
CEO compensation is growing faster than the wages of the top 0.1 percent and the stock market. This is a rather amazing chart:  ...

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7 Jul

Average Income of the Top 1% by Location

by Barry Ritholtz
Source: Visual Capitalist

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5 Jul

David Card: The Challenger

by Guest Author
The Challenger FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, March 2016, Vol. 53, No. 1 Peter J. Walker PDF version Peter J. Walker profiles David Card, the...

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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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