Long-Term Unemployment Benefits Expire; Long-Term Unemployment Falls
The unemployment rate has fallen from 6.7% at the end of 2013 to 6.1% in August 2014. That decline is primarily the result of the expiration of long-term unemployment benefits.
U2 Gives Away New Album, Makes Money by Serving Customers
Sometimes being an entrepreneur means just seeing the writing on the wall. Amazingly, there are still Intellectual Property dogmatists out there who think it’s fine that the FBI runs around arresting the band’s own fans for making copies of digital files, but U2 has apparently figured out that ship sailed long ago, and is giving away the band’s latest album.
The Hobby Lobby Decision and Private Property
Mark Thornton: ‘Record number of Americans in extreme poverty’ (with video)
Mark Thornton on PressTV:
“The United States has problems with unemployment and has problems with poverty and a record number of people meeting the standard of extreme poverty,” said Mark Thornton, senior fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Alabama and a research fellow with the Independent Institute in California. “Extreme poverty in the United States is now over 4 percent, that means they have less than $2 cash per person, per day,” Thornton said in a phone interview on
The Fed Distorts Everything
Lamenting the Decline of Labor Unions?
Not Morgan Reynolds. The eminent labor economist has an insightful and unsentimental review of sociologist Jake Rosenfeld’s lament about diminishing union power in Barron’s. (Scroll down to find article.)
