So, what’s behind the sharp increase that is expected in the oldest work-age demographic?
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Saturday, August 24, 2024
America’s Workforce Elderly Workforce To Double By 2028
Topics: Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 55 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/17/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Trade and China innovation, BIden, Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Yang, NC redistricting, industrial production, housing, Houston Ship Channel, fraud at J.P. Morgan, Peloton, Nucor, the Amazon, city heat and poverty, feral hogs, jazz, housing and health, Adolph Reed, passive-aggressiveness
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 119 Comments »
Purdue Files for Bankruptcy, Agrees to Settle Some Pending Opioids Litigation: Sacklers on Hook for Billions?
Purdue Pharma files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Will members of the Sackler family succeed in blunting accountability for the opioids crisis?
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Legal, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 1:55 pm | 14 Comments »
Links 9/17/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 137 Comments »
FAA Hoist on Its Own Boeing 737 Max Petard: Multiagency Panel to Issue Report Criticizing Agency Approval Process, Call for Certification Changes
Another FAA self-inflicted wound.
Topics: Banana republic, Free markets and their discontents, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Technology and innovation
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:20 am | 21 Comments »
Brexit: A Repeat of the Turmoil of 1914-1922?
What do critical chapters of British-Irish history augur for Brexit?
Topics: Brexit, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:51 am | 35 Comments »
Drama in the Oil Markets After Attacks on Saudi Production. But This Isn’t 2007 Anymore
How the shale boom made the US less vulnerable to oil supply shocks.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Guest Post, Middle East
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:30 am | 24 Comments »
Pop-Up NYC Meetup (with Michael Hudson and Jerri-Lynn) – 24th September
Pop-up meetup in Manhattan with Michael Hudson and Jerri-Lynn, 24th September 2019.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 5:55 pm | 14 Comments »
Elizabeth Warren Finally Puts a Health Care Page on Her Campaign Site, Fails to Allay Doubts
A close reading of Elizabeth Warren’s new health care “plan.”
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:25 pm | 33 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 9/16/2019
Today’s Water Cooler: Biden, Sanders, Warren, undecided voters, impeachment, Kavanaugh, Democrat debates, manufacturing, Wells Fargo, Uber and cash, Peter Thiel, Softbank, robot cars, the Amazon, the Santee Delta, Jeffrey Epstein, UAW, Carpenters Union, amazing quantum algorithm
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 119 Comments »
Air Ambulances Woo Rural Consumers With Memberships That May Leave Them Hanging
A patient could believe his or her emergency air transport was taken care of, only to face a rude awakening when the bill came.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Private equity
Posted by Lambert Strether at 9:55 am | 16 Comments »
Links 9/16/19
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 152 Comments »
Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-One: Mike Isaac’s Book Ignores Economics and Financial Results and Gets the Uber Story Almost Entirely Wrong
Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped!, a new book on Uber, draws fundamentally false conclusions about the company.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Market inefficiencies, Media watch, Private equity, Technology and innovation, Uber
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:53 am | 43 Comments »
London Meetup (with Jerri-Lynn)
London meetup, 3rd October, with Clive, Richard Smith, and Jerri-Lynn.
Topics: Guest Post, Notices
Posted by Jerri-Lynn Scofield at 12:55 am | 19 Comments »
Keynes Was Really a Conservative
“The class war,” said Keynes, “will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.”
Topics: Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:52 am | 37 Comments »