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Cities vulnerable in next downturn
Cities have been the big winners of this economic cycle. They suffered the least in the Great Recession and bounced back first. Tech jobs...
Opinion: Full employment helps rural Americans to move away
NEW YORK - It's been so long since we've had strong labor markets in the U.S. that we've forgotten what kind of pain they...
Opinion: Low inflation threatens corporate profit, not workers
NEW YORK - The latest inflation numbers are worrying the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
March's weak report on the consumer price index showed inflation to be...
Opinion: Wal-Mart and Amazon are buying their way to the top
NEW YORK - Amazon and Wal-Mart might once have existed in parallel universes, but these days they're in a price war. Both giants are now...
Trump’s health-care failure and the end of fake news
The Republicans' failed attempt to enact the American Health Care Act had at least one result: fake news suffered a very real loss.
One common...
Math will kill President Trump’s infrastructure plan
In his address to Congress on Tuesday, President Donald Trump once again brought up his support for a large infrastructure package. And there’s good...
Recipe for retro housing policy
The Trump administration's first official act was to restore some mortgage fees that had just been eliminated by the Obama administration.
Ordinarily, the fees...
What a minimum-wage increase can and can’t achieve
Economics became a spectator sport in the "Freakonomics" era, and these days all eyes are on Massachusetts, a state that increased its minimum wage...
Your local mall is going to die. Unless you’re rich
The slow death of the American shopping mall is not evenly distributed. A disproportionate number of recent high profile store closure announcements have been...
Adding jobs is a steep climb for Trump administration
Donald Trump wants to be a great jobs president. But the forces that really affect employment are beyond his control -- and they are...
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