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…Michigan will take an incredible beating, after a decade of beatings. Ugh. The UAW contracts are toast. Retiree health care benefits are toast. White collar jobs are toast. It is…

Worth a read…buy a leash and muzzle

…others on Wall Street) sympathize with this view says the industry badly needs to be leashed and collared. This, frankly, is the reason why I am so incredibly appalled by…

Alan Blinder v. Josh Bivens on Free Trade

…blue-collar labor (say industrialization in the early 20th century) or it can favor already-privileged workers (economists blame “skill-biased” technological change for some of the inequality growth that characterized the 1980s…

…in most white collar jobs. I’d say the data trend belongs to the President at this point”. Why didn’t Kudlow identify which New York Sun article he was referring to?…

…let companies pay overtime to fewer white collar workers, and allow media conglomerates to own more television stations. And there’s something for everyone (though I’d like to see a break…

…which Mr. Herbert writes about the problem of the “off-shoring” of white collar jobs. Not only is Brad right that opposing such off-shoring is tantamount to wishing poverty upon India,…

…post yesterday about this week’s Economist piece (subscription required) on white collar jobs in the US being outsourced to places like India. DeLong’s point is that The Economist goofed. He…