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wages
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Here’s The Proof, The Minimum Wage Kills Jobs
Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, Richard Murphy of City University – usually known around here as…
Guess Wages Will Just Have To Rise After Brexit
Employers are complaining that without badly paid immigrant labour they’ll just not be able to get the staff.…
Why Doesn’t Vox Bother To Read Its Own Articles?
As we all know Vox is the home of the snowflake journalists. That specific subgroup who are inline…
10% Of Global Workers Get 50% Of Pay – 20% Get Only 1%
This all sounds entirely logical and reasonable: Nearly half of all global pay is scooped up by only…
Keynes Was Right – On One Thing At Least
A contention of JM Keynes was that people hate, really just hate, their wages to go down. This…
How To Lie With Numbers – Akki’s Inflation Edition
We’re told that modern day people are worse off than those in the past. Because the price of…
Not Really The Best Economic Description Of Why Inflation Is Desirable
It would appear that the United States also suffers from that overexpansion of the universities. It not so…
Bernie Sanders And Walmart’s $11 An Hour – Top 3% Income Globally
Bernie Sanders insists that $11 an hour is too small a wage. This, the starting wage at Walmart,…
Proving Gary Becker’s Contention – The Stripper With The Lousy Boyfriend
Not that we’d look to Salon for good sense on anything of course but even the things they…
A Hard Brexit – One Without Free Movement – Will Raise UK Wages
So, Britain has record low unemployment, record high employment to population ratio and yet pretty anaemic wage growth.…