…Lewis Black routine? Paraphrasing: Facebook is worth $50 billion dollars. Goldman Sachs tells us so. And if they can get into China, Goldman says they’re worth $200 billion Which means,…

A while back I put together a rough calc estimating what our country’s “home-work” is worth as a share of GDP, based on the idea that such work is production,…

…the masters, for the masters, with little or no sense of worth or justice for the serfs. This enforces and reinforces the previous point. – A social and/or religious system…

…Dahlia Lithwick, are, I think, worth reading. Greenhouse’s is titled “Never Before,” and the thrust of her article is that those two words—“never before”—are the sum and the (non)legal substance…

…politicians are rich” (available here on Boston.com). A key point–the four remaining GOP presidential candidates all are millionaires, with most making more than a million a year and worth multiple…

…income. It’s worth stressing that wealth and income are not independent variables. Wealth is the accumulation of unspent income plus returns generated on that wealth over time. Is it proper…

…and democratically. As Will notes, in 2009, the net worth of households headed by senior citizens was 47 times the net worth of households led by people under 35. Yet…

…a health-care administrator, it’s win-win. Any economist worth her salt should know that lower costs of employment increase overall employment (assuming there is not a demand-side problem). If the McKinsey…

…S&P 500 and the employment to population ratio lagged two months, and so on, all the way through 15 years worth of lags. I also computed the correlation between the…

…As you can see, while everyone’s talking about the privatization of Medicare and block-grant of Medicaid, there are plenty of other pieces worth discussing here even without any of that….