Jan 03 How Paid Parental Leave Helps You, Your Newborn and the Job Market By Simone Pathe With the start of 2014, new parents in Rhode Island are eligible for paid family leave — the third state, after California and New Jersey, where such a right has been codified and enforced. At the national level, the… Continue reading
Jan 02 The Lucky Sperm Club: Jews, M&A and the unlocking of corporate America By John Weir Close John Weir Close tells the inside story of the development of the mergers and acquisitions movement in the 1980s -- a phenomenon that has ruled global commerce ever since. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Dan Nguyen. Paul Solman: "Since… Continue reading
Jan 02 The Lucky Sperm Club: Jews, M&A and the Unlocking of Corporate America By John Weir Close By John Weir Close John Weir Close tells the inside story of the development of the mergers and acquisitions movement in the 1980s — a phenomenon that has ruled global commerce ever since. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Dan… Continue reading
Jan 01 How to rate the risks of peer-to-peer lending, the newest bubble The careless lending practices in peer-to-peer lending may be a harbinger of greater problems to come in our financial system. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. The stock market had an incredibly good run in 2013: The Standard and Poor's… Continue reading
Jan 01 How to Rate the Risks of Peer-to-Peer Lending, the Newest Bubble By Doug Dachille The careless lending practices in peer-to-peer lending may be a harbinger of greater problems to come in our financial system. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. Continue reading
Dec 30 Is Social Security contributing to the deficit? By Laurence Kotlikoff Social Security is contributing to the deficit, says Larry Kotlikoff; it's just not showing up where readers may have been looking. Photo courtesy of William Thomas Cain/Getty Images. Continue reading
Dec 30 Is Social Security Contributing to the Deficit? By Laurence Kotlikoff By Larry Kotlikoff Social Security is contributing to the deficit, says Larry Kotlikoff; it's just not showing up where readers may have been looking. Photo courtesy of William Thomas Cain/Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his… Continue reading
Dec 27 What’s the state of economic inequality in America? By Simone Pathe With emergency benefits for the long-term unemployed expiring Saturday, what does economic inequality look like in America and how is it tied to unemployment and mobility? The NewsHour explores that topic with former labor secretary Robert Reich and the Manhattan… Continue reading
Dec 27 What’s the State of Economic Inequality in America? By Simone Pathe With emergency benefits for the long-term unemployed expiring Saturday, what does economic inequality look like in America and how is it tied to unemployment and mobility? The NewsHour explores that topic with former labor secretary Robert Reich and the… Continue reading
Dec 27 So you think you can do better than the Fed? By Paul Solman Fed chair Ben Bernanke steps down at the end of January. The Fed may not be perfect, Paul Solman explains in response to a reader, but is there another way to run a modern market-driven economy? Photo courtesy of Alex… Continue reading