Read my latest piece in Newsweek. Another sign of how the job market still stinks for many Americans. A tale of two restaurants is really a tale of two labor markets.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
Two Numbers: Spring Reading List from Hell
Read my Newsweek piece on how much our income tax code has grown over the years.
For most of us the tax code
seems to have literally outgrown its usefulness.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Two Numbers: Twitter's Dicey 2013
Read my Newsweek piece on Twitter's 2013. Even after the sell off, Twitter's valuation is sky high! At this rate, it would take hundreds of years for the stock to pay back.
Monday, February 10, 2014
At the IRS trying to collect more with less
Read my Datapoints column in Sunday's New York Times about how fiscal austerity is making it harder to collect taxes. It seems the Republican agenda goes beyond cutting taxes to limiting the collection of taxes that are legally due.
Two Numbers: It pays more to flip burgers down under
Read my latest piece in Newsweek about how stingy the US is in terms of the minimum wage compared with other wealthy countries. Australia's minimum wage is more than double that of the US and it hasn't held back the Aussie economy all these years!
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