Daily Economy
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What Does It Mean to Have Predicted an Economic Event?
Seismologists can’t predict earthquakes. Economists can predict financial meltdowns? Please.
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Drone Startups Work Around the Clock to Make the World a Better Place
Drone technology has a lot of untapped potential. Unfortunately, most Americans might only know about the unmanned aerial vehicles thanks to the U.S. government and its unconstitutional drone war.
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Durable-Goods Orders Rose in December on Strength in Consumer Durables
Durable-goods orders rose in December, but core capital-goods orders fell for the fourth time in the last five months. Continued economic expansion remains the most likely path but caution is warranted.
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You Don’t Really Know When to Buy or Sell
Active managers may be good at finding buying opportunities, but they seem to lose their discipline when it comes to selling.
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Universities Might Be Ruining Students’ Lives
We are treating students precisely the way we shouldn’t if we are trying to help them become resilient, functioning, and free people.
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The Death of Karl Lagerfeld, and Clothing Too
The death of Lagerfeld does not mean the certain and forever death of elegance. His death might shock us all into a new sensibility that helps us all see what he saw: if we want the world to be beautiful, we have to make it so.
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These Regulations Are Making Truckers Less Safe — and Your Amazon Prime Membership More Costly
Truckers involved in the “slow roll” protest argue that the regulations in question decrease how much time they can drive per day. And as the nation faces a shortage of truck drivers, retailers are more pressed than ever to find efficient ways to get their goods delivered fast.
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#FightFor15 N.Y. Fast-Food Workers: We’re Being Unfairly Fired
According to a recent New York Times piece, workers who supported and helped to push for the minimum wage increase in New York City are now being fired — and for unfair reasons, they claim. But how could anyone call these firings unfair when employers are being forced to raise everybody’s wage?
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Who Can Claim Credit for the Karl Marx Monument?
Is there an ethical case to remove the Karl Marx monument from London’s Highgate Cemetery on account of its Bolshevik connections?
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Why You Have to Bus Your Own Table
Soft skills are being priced out of the labor market by minimum wages. At $8 an hour, it might be worthwhile to hire someone to bus tables. At $11 an hour, Massachusetts’ minimum, it probably isn’t.
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What Does It Mean to Have Predicted an Economic Event?
Seismologists can’t predict earthquakes. Economists can predict financial meltdowns? Please.
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•
Drone Startups Work Around the Clock to Make the World a Better Place
Drone technology has a lot of untapped potential. Unfortunately, most Americans might only know about the unmanned aerial vehicles thanks to the U.S. government and its unconstitutional drone war.
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•
Durable-Goods Orders Rose in December on Strength in Consumer Durables
Durable-goods orders rose in December, but core capital-goods orders fell for the fourth time in the last five months. Continued economic expansion remains the most likely path but caution is warranted.
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•
You Don’t Really Know When to Buy or Sell
Active managers may be good at finding buying opportunities, but they seem to lose their discipline when it comes to selling.
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•
Universities Might Be Ruining Students’ Lives
We are treating students precisely the way we shouldn’t if we are trying to help them become resilient, functioning, and free people.
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•
The Death of Karl Lagerfeld, and Clothing Too
The death of Lagerfeld does not mean the certain and forever death of elegance. His death might shock us all into a new sensibility that helps us all see what he saw: if we want the world to be beautiful, we have to make it so.
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•
These Regulations Are Making Truckers Less Safe — and Your Amazon Prime Membership More Costly
Truckers involved in the “slow roll” protest argue that the regulations in question decrease how much time they can drive per day. And as the nation faces a shortage of truck drivers, retailers are more pressed than ever to find efficient ways to get their goods delivered fast.
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•
#FightFor15 N.Y. Fast-Food Workers: We’re Being Unfairly Fired
According to a recent New York Times piece, workers who supported and helped to push for the minimum wage increase in New York City are now being fired — and for unfair reasons, they claim. But how could anyone call these firings unfair when employers are being forced to raise everybody’s wage?
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•
Who Can Claim Credit for the Karl Marx Monument?
Is there an ethical case to remove the Karl Marx monument from London’s Highgate Cemetery on account of its Bolshevik connections?
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Why You Have to Bus Your Own Table
Soft skills are being priced out of the labor market by minimum wages. At $8 an hour, it might be worthwhile to hire someone to bus tables. At $11 an hour, Massachusetts’ minimum, it probably isn’t.