Job growth is the economy’s only bright side, and it isn’t very bright
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Breakfast with Benjamin: The data show companies are hiring, but virtually everything else in the economy is falling.
- The data show companies are hiring, but virtually everything else in the economy is falling. The math adds up because the jobs are mostly lousy and part-time. The bright side just isn’t very bright
- What is probably keeping Janet Yellen up at night? Secular Stagnation. A ‘scary prospect’
- Citigroup and JPMorgan feel the heat from Democrats after the big banks stop giving them money. Elizabeth Warren to the rescue
- Greece digs in, showing little interest in compromising. The opposite of austerity
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