Jerry BucknoffPersonal Finance The Stuff That Costs More When You're PoorLifehacker Spend less than you earn, save your money, and—poof!—your financial problems are solved. If only it were this easy. Being broke sucks enough on its …
Jerry BucknoffPolitics John Bercow set for another clash with Government when he rules whether MPs can vote again on Boris Johnson's dealThe Telegraph - By Christopher HopeJohn Bercow is set for another clash with the Government over Brexit on Monday when he will rule on whether MPs can vote again to approve Boris Johnson's deal. The Government decided to boycott Saturday's
Jerry BucknoffLiberal View Democrats Urge FBI Investigation Of Trump For Insider Tradingpoliticususa.com - Jason Easley Reps. Ted W. Lieu (D-CA) and Kathleen Rice (D-NY) sent letters to the FBI and SEC demanding an investigation into Trump market manipulation and …
Jerry BucknoffWealth The French Economist Who Helped Invent Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth TaxThe New Yorker - Benjamin Wallace-WellsTo trace the progress of the wealth tax from a fringe academic idea to the center of the Democratic Presidential primary, it is helpful to begin a bit off-center. On September 15, 2008, the day that Lehman
Jerry BucknoffWomen's News Around the world, women are taking charge of their futureNational Geographic - By Rania Abouzeid and Lynn JohnsonFrom France to Kenya to India and Malawi, women are feeling more empowered to make their voices heard—and to demand gender equality. Theresa Kachindamoto remembers the first child marriage she ended,
Jerry BucknoffBusiness The world’s top economists just made the case for why we still need English majorsThe Washington Post - By Heather LongA great migration is happening on U.S. college campuses. Ever since the fall of 2008, a lot of students have walked out of English and humanities lectures and into STEM classes, especially computer science
Jerry Bucknoff Next recession: Peter Schiff says next one will outdo housing bubble - Business InsiderBusiness Insider - Christopher CompetielloThere's no denying that the housing bubble of the 2000s was the most severe economic event to roil the world since the Great Depression. Excessive leverage, risky lending practices, and overexuberance
Jerry BucknoffNorth Hollywood They came to L.A. to chase a Hollywood dream. Two weeks later, they were homelessLos Angeles Times - Nita LelyveldSo many people come to L.A. carrying little else but big dreams. One misstep, one con, one stroke of bad luck can be all it takes to derail them. I recently met a young couple from Detroit whose journey
Jerry BucknoffBrexit Brexit vote setback for Boris Johnson in Parliament - live updatesCNN - By Rob Picheta, CNNParliament has emptied and the action appears to be over, at least for the time being. Brexit watchers are shifting their attention to 11 p.m. local time (6 p.m. ET), the deadline for Boris Johnson to
Jerry Bucknoff This is how we've been able to measure extreme poverty over the agesweforum.org - Max Roser The poverty researcher Martin Ravallion spent decades researching how poverty can be measured and which policies can help us in our fight against …
Jerry BucknoffChristine Lagarde EU seals Lagarde’s ECB appointmentpolitico.eu - Bjarke Smith-Meyer EU leaders formally appointed Christine Lagarde Friday to become European Central Bank president on November 1. The former International Monetary Fund …
Jerry BucknoffBusiness Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing: We Can’t Trust Businesses To Do Right By Americans NowForbes - Christian WellerAmerica’s largest corporations changed their tune in August. The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers (CEOs) of some of America’s largest companies, including JPMorgan Chase,
Jerry BucknoffConsumer Spending How Americans spend their money, in one chartLadders - Juan Carlos Americans are notorious spenders. Compared to many other nations around the world, households in the U.S. have a particularly low savings rate, and …
Jerry BucknoffNews (U.S.) What a suspicious pattern of Trump trades really revealstheweek.com - Noah Millman Is the Trump presidency ultimately just a scam to make the Trump family money? Allegations to that effect have been made almost continuously since …
Jerry BucknoffEducation These countries spend the most on educationweforum.org - Emma Charlton Luxembourg leads the way on education spending on a per-student basis, followed by the US and Sweden, according to a recent report from the …
Jerry BucknoffRetail Weak U.S. retail sales cast shadow over slowing economyReuters India - By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. retail sales fell for the first time in seven months in September, suggesting that manufacturing-led weakness could be spreading to the broader economy, keeping the door open
Jerry BucknoffDonald Trump Opinion: Trump continues to hoodwink his base on the economyMarketWatch - By Paul Brandus In 2016, before Trump was elected and launched his trade war with China, American farmers exported boatloads (literally) of soybeans to China—36.1 …
Jerry BucknoffPolitics Democrats debate whether billionaires should existCNN - Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN(CNN) — Underpinning Elizabeth Warren's and Bernie Sanders' idea that the government should do a lot more for everyone is the fact that the government would have to take a lot more from the richest few.
Jerry BucknoffPeter Navarro Top Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro quoted a made-up economist in his books on ChinaAxios - Dion Rabouin Top Trump administration economic adviser Peter Navarro made up an economist he has quoted regularly in his books named Ron Vara, Tom Bartlett writes …
Jerry BucknoffOpinion Record debt and inequality gap? It's almost like 40 years of Republican tax cuts failed.USA TODAY - Steven StraussTrickle-down failure: The cult-like Republican belief in tax cuts isn’t supported by results. It's leading to an apocalypse of debt and inequality. Since the Reagan administration, Republicans have fervently
Jerry BucknoffTrump International Hotels Trump is selling out America in Syria and beyondSalon - Robert ReichThe most xenophobic and isolationist American president in modern history has been selling America to foreign powers for his personal benefit. That’s an impeachable offense. President Donald Trump says
Jerry BucknoffEconomics Dollar hit as euro, sterling rise on Brexit dealReuters - Saqib Iqbal AhmedNEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar fell sharply against the euro and sterling on Thursday as European Union leaders unanimously backed a long-awaited Brexit deal to take Britain out of Europe on Oct.
Jerry BucknoffAmazon How Amazon Can Afford to Ship a $2 Stick of Deodorant to Your House by TomorrowThe Motley Fool - Adam Levy Amazon's dropping the "add-on item" tag from a lot of its inventory. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) made waves when it announced Prime's move from two-day to …
Jerry BucknoffTaxes Here's why this economist says the 'perfect' tax rate for the rich is 75%CNBC - Robert Frank The ideal tax rate for the richest 1% of Americans is about 75% — more than twice the current rates, according to the economist advising Sen. …
Jerry BucknoffBusiness Nobel Economics Prize Goes to Pioneers in Reducing PovertyThe New York Times - Jeanna SmialekAbhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of M.I.T. and Michael Kremer of Harvard have devoted more than 20 years of economic research to developing new ways to study — and help — the world’s poor. On Monday,
Jerry BucknoffCannabis Flowhub raises $23 million for its retail management software for cannabis dispensariesTechCrunch - Jonathan ShieberAs cannabis dispensaries flourish across the country alongside the push to legalize medicinal and recreational marijuana use, demand for tools to manage the specificities of the weed retail business continues
Jerry BucknoffFinance Trump brand 'has become toxic' for some people, Forbes editor saysyahoo.com - Adam Shapiro Forbes magazine’s latest list of the 400 wealthiest Americans ranks President Donald Trump at No. 275 with a $3.1 billion fortune. Forbes Associate …
Jerry BucknoffIndia News Global Stocks make cautious gains ahead of key Brexit summitFirstpost - Reuters TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks and Wall Street futures inched higher on Tuesday as some investors held out hope that Britain still had a chance to …
Jerry BucknoffAmazon Studios Is Amazon Unstoppable?The New Yorker - Charles DuhiggPoliticians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back. In 2017, a few months after Forbes named Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the
