by Henry Oliner | Jan 30, 2014 | Economics
Mickey Kaus writes in the Wall Street Journal, The Other Kind of Inequality. (may require a paid subscription to enact link) Excerpt: Social equality—”equality of respect,” as economist Noah Smith puts it—is harder to measure than money inequality. But...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 5, 2013 | Economics, Politics
James Pethokoukis writes Obama’s big inequality speech: short on facts and vision in the AEIdeas: excerpt: Here’s the bottom line: America’s pro-market turn some three decades ago reversed what then seemed like unstoppable national decline. (Nations that didn’t make...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 18, 2013 | Economics
In a couple of postings I have written on what seemed to be a bifurcated economy: publicly traded large firms and large private firms seem to be doing OK, but smaller privately held firms are not. In my narrow window on the world I have seen many small businesses...
