Wednesday, March 27, 2013

EU Proposes Tighter Rules on Investment Incentives

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The European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition is the EU equivalent of the U.S. Department of Justice Anti-trust Division...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Speaking of Inequality (with correction)

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Travis Waldron at Think Progress pointed out this excellent article by David Cay Johnston . It dovetails well with my last post , which sho...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Real Wages Decline; Literally No One Notices

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Your read it here first: Real wages fell 0.2% in 2012, down from $295.49 (1982-84 dollars) to $294.83 per week, according to the 2013 Econom...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

EU Chooses Bank Runs Over Fighting Tax Haven Cyprus

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NPR's "Marketplace" reported Monday that the European Union planned to impose a tax on bank deposits in Cyprus of up to 10% t...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

Job Piracy Marches On in Alabama (Updated)

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Unmentioned in the recent Good Jobs First report on job piracy, it turns out that both relocation subsidies and retention subsidies are com...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Europeans Dreaming Up New Ways to Destroy the Global Economy; Republicans Follow Suit

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While we are busy paying attention to the 550th edition of Republican-caused fake crises (aka the sequester), a much more real crisis is bre...
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Minimum Wage a Winner Both Politically and Economically

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President Obama's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9.00 per hour puts the Republicans between a rock and a hard place politically ...
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