Money & The Economy

Gig Economy: Working in Retail

As the American economy continues to slip into the crapper, more of us are taking multiple part-time jobs (gigs) to…

11 years ago

Gig-economy: Why take a job as a UPS pre-loader?

Why would anyone consider a package loading job with UPS or Fedex? As the economy drives more Americans into part-time…

11 years ago

Trump reveals tax proposal

Donald Trump the Republican candidate for President made a restrained and knowledgeable interview on 60 Minutes which aired Sunday night.…

11 years ago

Federal Reserve interest rate decision announced

The U.S. Federal Reserves' Open Market Committee (FOMC) has announced the decision to keep interest rates at 0%. The FOMC…

11 years ago

Inflation and Bubbles and Tulips: Crash Course Economics #7 [Video]

https://youtu.be/T8-85cZRI9o?list=PLrEnWoR732-BHrPp_Pm8_VleD68f9s14- In which Adriene and Jacob teach you about how and why prices rise. Sometimes prices rise as a result…

11 years ago

The Myth of Expansive Workers’ Rights

For many, Labor Day is a chance to seize the remaining vestiges of summer- the final trip to the beach,…

11 years ago

China can’t help itself – another round of cash injections on tap

China's central bankers announced Wednesday that they would be injecting another huge amount of cash into the stock market and…

11 years ago

Currency War? Cheap Chinese goods about to get cheaper

The Chinese central bank cut the value of the renminbi (yuan) by 1.9% sending other Asian currencies downward and making Chinese exports…

11 years ago

Treasury Admits Regulation Hurts Business

For years adherents to the Austrian school of economics have been making the case that regulation bars access to economic…

11 years ago

Why U.S. companies can’t find skilled workers

U.S. companies are reporting that they are increasingly struggling to find workers with the proper skills for the labor market,…

11 years ago