September 21, 2019


"Conservatives need to start talking about the rich as ‘fountainheads’ and ‘Atlases,’ individuals who are indispensable to wealth creation and general prosperity."

"“It’s not that children make you unhappy,” Blanchflower told me. “It’s the fact that they bring lots of expenses and difficulties. You have to buy the milk and the diapers. And that financial pressure gets muddled up with this.”"

"I for one believe that commercial drivers licenses are a necessary thing. Ditto the restrictions that we rightly impose upon the ability of any lunatic to declare himself a dentist and start drilling away with the Crafstman in his garage. But hair?"

"Since 1980, the incomes of the very rich have grown faster than the economy. The upper middle class has kept pace with the economy, while the middle class and poor have fallen behind."

"It was just one branch of one company in one city, but Amazon’s cancellation of its planned New York office has cities and companies all over the country rethinking their plans."

"The super-rich are always looking for ways to decrease the amount of taxes they have to pay. But what are the things they do to ease their burden? Experts break down 5 common strategies that help save their clients money."



"Progress in technological innovation, reducing poverty, and increasing life expectancy around the world continues to increase. Yet there is also persistent poverty in poor and fragile states..."

"In talmudic tort law.. the responsible party must transfer to the plaintiff an area of his best land of equivalent value- rather than a larger area of low-quality land. From the standpoint of classical economics, such a requirement is nonsensical."


"In his State of the Union address last week, President Trump vowed the country can make its middle class “bigger and more prosperous than ever before.”"



"Smartphones often tether us to our jobs even when we're not at the office, making it hard to disconnect and find the balance between work and personal time."

"layoffs in the sense we mean now — when a business decides to terminate the employment of workers in the name of strategic planning... are a relatively recent phenomenon."

"Your office is a den of thieves. Don’t take my word for it: When a forensic-accounting firm surveyed workers in 2013, 52 percent admitted to stealing company property. And the thievery is getting worse."

"Businesses are nervous, unsure of whether the president's next move is to lower the tariffs or raise them. That's another reason business investment has flat-lined."

"His policies so far have, if anything, made these problems worse... conservatives, including the President’s economic advisor, suggested to cut key middle-class benefits such as Social Security and Medicare to pay for the deficits..."

"A new Economic Policy Institute study finds that Airbnb contributes to rising home prices in cities, yet often escapes comprehensive regulation."


"For the rest of the country looking on, the question of what we would do if we missed two paychecks in a row was on many people’s minds. And for many, it was no mystery: They wouldn’t be able to afford it."

"[Schultz] is hardly the first billionaire CEO to consider a run for the White House in the hopes of changing politics and government. And he won't be the last."

"For Americans under the age of 40, the 21st century has resembled one long recession... the economy has now been growing for almost a decade. But the truth is that younger Americans have not benefited much. "


"Ocasio-Cortez is right: Rich must pay more to help close America's wealth and income gaps... Democrats now have a big opportunity to design and advance a progressive economic agenda that could become a reality after 2020."


"John Bogle, the founder of The Vanguard Group who died earlier this month at age 89, got rich by giving his mutual fund customers a better deal. The obituaries seem to have missed that point."

"The structure of MLMs is to blame for many of those “Let’s catch up!” Facebook messages piling up in your inbox. The more recruits or team members your friend pulls in, the more money she makes. "

"The government shutdown flooded folks with fear. Yet it shouldn’t. The aftermath of shutdowns is also great, with U.S. stocks averaging 12.8 percent in the next 12 months."

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