Showing posts with label low pay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label low pay. Show all posts
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Squaring the circle, packing your bags

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In Britain, there are 28.89 million employed - 72.5% of the "people of working age"; median earnings approach £25,000 . In China, ...
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Saturday, July 07, 2007

The world is flat - or is it? Is Leamer right about Friedman?

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Thomas Friedman's book, "The World Is Flat" is a best-seller - Wikipedia summary here . Friedman's related website is here...
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Thursday, July 05, 2007

Buffett on trade imbalances

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Warren Buffett's 28 February 2007 letter to shareholders is available online, and makes educational and entertaining reading. Here'...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Marc Faber: consumer spending to decrease

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Seeking Alpha's Sunday review of fund manager stock suggestions reveals that Marc Faber expects consumer discretionary spending to decr...
Friday, May 25, 2007

US immigration and the poor (continued)

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Altough immigration can keep down the living standards of poorer workers, it's not possible to undo what has happened so far, as this s...

US poor getting poorer

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Following my earlier comments on Alan Greenspan's enthusiasm for immigration, yesterday's Daily Reckoning gives Martin Hutchinson&#...
Sunday, May 20, 2007

Quick fix or cold turkey?

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Alan Greenspan seems to think relaxing rules on immigration will help America. I think this is short-sighted. If it's about keeping do...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

What is Alan Greenspan doing?

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Recently, ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been sounding warnings about the US economy and is now aware that his back-seat dri...