We Baby Boomers have all heard this refrain, and perhaps uttered it ourselves: If the stock market doesn’t recover, I may never be able to retire.
A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, however, finds that fear to be…
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Loading ...Obesity is generally blamed on both genetics and behavior. Economists, though, like to look at incentives, and a new National Bureau of Economic Research study suggests a strong link between obesity, which we tend to think of as a bad…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Wall Street Journal columnist L. Gordon Crovitz agrees that immigration is an economic issue, a point I made in Sunday’s column. He recites various statistics to back up his point:
Half of Silicon Valley start-ups were founded by immigrants, up from 25%…
(7 votes, average: 4.71 out of 5) Loading ...When the National Bureau of Economic Research made its official recession declaration yesterday, a couple of questions came to mind. One, as expressed in one of the comments on our story, is, “DUHHH. Did it really take them that long…
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