We keep adding jobs and the unemployment rate is extremely low. So why don’t overall wages rise more that 2-2.5% year over a year? Holding constant the retirement of high paid baby boomers and millennials entering the work force at starting salaries, we should still normally see more wage growth and tightness in the labor…
[VIEW FULL POST]Kari wrote an op-ed for CNBC today. In it she describes a useful set of principles that anyone can utilize in this new age of market unpredictability and bizarre presidential Tweets. Read the full article on CNBC.com
[VIEW FULL POST]Perhaps because Amazon and others attract billions of consumers with rock bottom prices, no firms have money to pay higher wages, although they need plenty of workers to fill orders. Read the full article in The New York Times
[VIEW FULL POST]This video and description was originally posted by CNBC. Watch the video on CNBC.com The “Fast Money Halftime Report” traders discuss mixed upgrades and downgrades for Chipotle after news of a restaurant closing for the day after a norovirus outbreak.
[VIEW FULL POST]Here’s how career women can avoid that tingling of guilt about missing that important soccer game. Read the full article on CNBC.com
[VIEW FULL POST]Carina Cochano talks about our propensity to downplay actual problems we may have in society today. Read the full story in The New York Times
[VIEW FULL POST]This video and description was originally posted by CNBC. Watch the video on CNBC.com The “Fast Money Halftime Report” traders discuss their picks for the biotech sector as Vertex leads.
[VIEW FULL POST]The US government again helps Amazon by limiting whomever might be able to be a real competitor. As long as prices fall, the US doesn’t seem to care about anti-trust issues. Read the full article in The New York Times
[VIEW FULL POST]The cost of convenience and lower pricing to shop will be an incredible loss of jobs and potential obliteration of local communities and towns. We haven’t figured out how to replace that loss. Read the full story in The New York Times
[VIEW FULL POST]Are we moving to a world with 5 or 6 companies controlling whatever and however we read, see, drive, eat and wear? It seems that way and the government hasn’t worried yet about monopolies. Read the full story in The New York Times
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