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Tag Archives: Economics
A Circuit Breaker For Circuit Breakers
China pulled the plug on its stock market circuit breakers, which is probably a good thing.
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What Are The Credit Markets Telling Us?
The stock market calmly handled the Fed’s interest rate hike, but other parts of the financial markets are uncomfortable.
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A Small Step Toward Economic Normalcy
Put it on your calendar: The zero-interest era, at least in America, will end on December 16.
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Courage Or Chutzpah?
In upstate New York’s economic desert, Cuomo’s minimum wage boost will make government the employer of first resort.
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Will They Or Won’t They?
Today we find out whether the Fed is ready to raise interest rates. Don’t bet on it.
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Another Market Tantrum
Is this month’s stock market convulsion just another tantrum, or something worse?
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China Does What Europe Couldn’t
Devaluation could have helped some eurozone economies, and it will probably help China’s.
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Who Pays For A Higher Minimum Wage?
If you raise the price of goods, or labor, it isn’t the wealthy who feel the pain.
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The $110 Billion Bank Robbery
Want to know where all that money from bank fines went? Check the barn.
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