The Private Equity Deception
Private equity firms are a risky place to invest and their reported returns can be misleading.
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Dear Dr. Dollar: The Minimum Wage and Inflation
Dear Dr. Dollar: Would an increase of the minimum wage be inflationary? Would more inflation than we have now be a good or bad thing? —Alex Searles, Boston, Mass.
Taming the Corporate Beast
Even business leaders are now calling for corporate reform, but most of the measures on offer are little more than cosmetic.
Picketing Wealth Inequality
Review of Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Picketty. Harvard University Press, 2014.
What Happened to the Recovery?
Part I: Weak Employment, Stagnant Wages, and Booming Profits The 2007-2010 recession was the longest and deepest since World War
Report on Working Families Summit, Plus One More Link
(1) Tim Koechlin, "Inequality and the Case for Unions." In my Monday Links post, I meant to include
Monday Links
(1) Bill Barclay: Reproduction, Production, and the Gender Division of Labor. An excellent piece by Bill Barclay of the Chicago
The Mouse That Wouldn't Die: How a Lack of Public Funding Holds Back a Promising Cancer Treatment
Spring 1999. “Professor Cui, this mouse didn’t get cancer. Should I get rid of him?” It was a standard
Live-Blogging Piketty: Reading Pt. IV
To summarize the argument of Capital thus far, Piketty has found that over long stretches of time and in many
After the Vote: Results of the European Parliament Elections
Above--an image from Wilders' Best Friends Forever, which makes posters displaying reactionary and/or racist quotations from people allied
Live-Blogging Piketty: An Interlude (Response to Chris Giles)
Should We Count Out Piketty Due to Sum Math Errors? While I am here in Paris reading Capital in the
Live-Blogging Piketty: Reading Pt. III
Chris Giles and Ferdinando Giugliano raised some concerns about Thomas Piketty's data in yesterday's Financial Times.