This recession caused a severe disruption in the labor market for teen employment. The chart below illustrates the unemployment rate alongside the employment-to-population ratio for those aged 16-19 years. The…

…grounds. The letter claims that the bill is supported by US-only insurers because they “seek to gain via a protected market that would allow them to charge higher prices.” But…

Capitalists sure seem to prefer Obama to Bush….

…market make the market work better. This would make sense if one accepting a strong by semi strong form efficient markets hypothesis where prices are optimal given public information, private…

…from unproductive groups to productive groups and sometimes in the form of policies to convert unproductive groups into productive ones. Creating “rents” (above normal market returns) by “distorting” markets through…

Michael Swanwick explains how a monopoly can destroy itself: Nowadays, times are much easier but a lot scammier. Last week I had to buy a new palmbook/laptop. Which, I discovered…

…enough that you cannot tell the difference between the two. For years, Fannie, Freddie, and the FHA stayed out of the exotic mortgages market. Their payoff was that their risk…

…when credit markets still crimp the stimulus that the Fed so desperately wants to get into the open market (much of the base, roughly $855 billion on September 23, 2009…

…is the prices that would occur if markets were perfectly efficient. It is assumed that something puts a gap between prices and fundamental values (for example the fundamental value changes…

rdan Brett Steenbarger at Trader Feed has an interesting take on rules of the market for the current decade of market of stocks. In the chart, I’m looking at a…