Corporate Sector Comes Alive
The corporate sector has received too little attention from financial media of late. Individual firms, of course, continue to attract media interest, especially if a scandal develops, but few these […]
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Corporate Sector Comes Alive
The corporate sector has received scant attention from financial media of late. Individual firms, of course, continue to attract media interest, especially if a scandal develops, but few these days […]
Trade Points to Structural Shift in the Economy
Foreign trade, once a hot topic, gets little media attention these days. It deserves more. It suggests that the country’s long-held technological edge may have dulled and that robotics likely […]
Business Confidence Hangs on Trump Action
The burst of market enthusiasm over Trump’s election victory clearly has had a reflection in the real business community. Spending on new capital equipment, including the technologies embodied in it, […]
An Agenda for Trump
The great stock market rally since the election has proceeded on hopes that Trump will keep his more welcome campaign promises and forget others. Now, the White House needs to […]
Review: Upside of Inequality by Edward Conard
Having much to offer, this book is nonetheless uneven. Despite its title, it tells the reader less about the upside of inequality than it disputes popular explanations for it and […]
A Desperate Need For Optimism
Where are the “animal spirits” that once motivated American business? Their absence bodes ill for the future. This plea must sound as if it emerged from a Trump harangue, but […]
Wage Gains: Good and Not
Wages have begun to accelerate. According to the Labor Department, hourly compensation in this economy has risen faster than inflation for ten of the last twelve quarters. For those who […]
Signs of Fundamental Economic Weakness
Just about everyone these days wrings his or her hands over the state of the economy. Some concerns are bogus, some legitimate. One of fundamental importance has received less notice […]
Income Inequality
While President Obama has recently raised the nation’s conciseness of income inequality, the subject is hardly new. Scholars, commentators, and working people have been talking about the widening gap between […]
Thirty Tomorrows 