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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business

In 1980, Jim Baron, now a professor at the Yale School of Management, and William Bielby, now a professor at the University of Illinois, published a seminal article on firms and inequality. Related Video. However, any discussion of firms and wage inequality must not be limited to discussion of market forces.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: FHA Swamped By Defaults.

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According to Ligon, the only way the FHA can avoid a bailout is to reduce its market share by lowering maximum loan limits to $325,000 over the next four years, raise credit requirements for borrowers, and institute “burden sharing” with loan originators by reducing insurance coverage from the current 100 percent to 50 percent by 2016.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Independently, Michael Porter’s Social Progress Index in 2016 specifically highlighted opportunity in Manizales as significantly higher than both Medellin and Bogota. 200 video clips on growth-related topics have attracted over 22,000 views and many thousands more people are following Scaling Up Manizales on Facebook and Twitter.

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FOMC Minutes and Economic Projections: Dissent in Both Directions

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Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. Participants anticipated a gradual decline in the unemployment rate over the forecast period; a large majority projected that the unemployment rate would not reach their estimates of its longer-run level before 2016.

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Is Mario Draghi a Bare-Assed Emperor With No Clothes?

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But he added that fresh declines in oil prices suggest that the annual rate of inflation in 2016 is likely to be “significantly” below forecasts released last month. I position the video at that spot. Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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Swiss Bank Hits Customers With Negative Interest Rates; Crazy? What About Velocity?

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The Alternative Bank Schweiz wrote to customers telling them they would face a -0.125 per cent rate on their money from 2016 – and a -0.75 With its balance sheet totalling nearly 1.6 Link if video does not play: Crazy - Patsy Cline. emphasis in caps from the article). per cent rate on deposits above 100,000 Swiss francs.

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