Are Stock Buybacks Depressing Wages?
“Buybacks…are an important tool that businesses must have to reallocate excess capital” – Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Touted by proponents as a productive method of investing leftoverContinue Reading
“Buybacks…are an important tool that businesses must have to reallocate excess capital” – Jamie Dimon, CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Touted by proponents as a productive method of investing leftoverContinue Reading
50 years ago, President Kennedy called for a better measurement of objective well-being in economic policy, yet we are still prioritizing GDP growth today. In his speech at the UniversityContinue Reading
The U.S. economy is outdated. It has begun to function improperly and it’s on the verge of ceasing to function at all. Don’t allow yourself to be tricked by historicallyContinue Reading
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic feels like it has been taken straight from a movie plot. It feels too grand to be true: entire economies and markets have come to anContinue Reading
College sports have become an important part of higher education in the United States; they play an important role in college culture, dorm life, and they bring in large amountsContinue Reading
“We lose money on every sale but make it up in volume”. The old joke holds a painful kernel of truth: scale alone does not ensure profitability. This is aContinue Reading
This October, in a landmark decision, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) allowed college athletes to be paid for their own name and image through endorsements. The impetus for thisContinue Reading
With its initial public offering (IPO) scheduled to take place within months, the We Company (better known as WeWork) was about to realize the dream of technology startups everywhere: sellContinue Reading
On a broad level, America is seeing rapid, widespread demographic shifts. But some areas are experiencing greater shifts than others. People of color will soon become the national majority, andContinue Reading
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