Click for a ginormous graphic. Source: WonkBlog
Labor Participation Rate and (lack of) Wage Inflation
Marginal Participants Await Higher Wages Very interesting analysis on the Not in Labor Force cohort from Bloomberg...
CEO Compensation is Broken
Executive Pay Gluttony Maybe big institutional investors could make a difference. Bloomberg, April 30, 2015 ...
A Pizza Place Closes in Seattle . . .
Barry here: I know Invictus personally for more than a decade. I also know he works at a shop that does not allow its staff to publish...
Pre-Crisis Financial Company CEO Compensation
Since CEO compensation is back in the news, I thought we might want to revisit this collection of excess via Bailout Nation: Pre-Crisis...
1.4% Price Rise Gets Wal-Mart Off Welfare
Te question I keep asking (here, here and here) is why are taxpayers subsidizing a giant, private, profitable company? The video goes...
Behind the Slow Pace of Wage Growth
Behind the Slow Pace of Wage Growth Filippo Occhino Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 04.09.2015 Despite continued progress in the labor...
High Number of Zero-Savers
47% of households have a 0% personal savings rate, see chart below. Source: Torsten Sløk, Ph.D., Deutsche Bank Securities