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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Naked capitalism - It's Time to Regulate the Gig Economy - Yves Smith 4/18 * "Depicting work in the platform economy as a mere 'sharing of favors' conveys an image of the gig economy as a sort of parallel dimension, where chores
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Markets / Economy Economist - Cash-strapped pensioners: America has a retirement problem, not a saving problem 4/18 Finance WSJ - The Risk of Rising Consumer Borrowing - Aaron Back 4/17 China Value Walk - If The China Property Bubble Bursts, Banks And Individual Wealth Likely More Impacted - Mark Melin 4/12 * "
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice FT - China faces a tough fight to escape its debt trap - Martin Wolf 4/11 Real Estate WSJ - Daily Shot: Households with Negative Equity 4/17 Finance NYT - Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined - Landon Thomas Jr. 4/14 * "In the last
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Happy Easter! Real Estate FT - Chinese buyers fuel Brooklyn real estate boom - Rana Foroohar 4/16 * "…World property markets have become totally disconnected from national economies. There has been a massive housing recovery in the US since 2008, but over half of all the gains have accrued to a
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Finance FT - Rise of private debt creates fears of a bubble - Robin Wigglesworth 4/13 * "Banks have in recent years been forced to retrench their operations, tamed by financial crisis losses, bridled by shareholders and tethered by more onerous regulation. Lending to smaller and mid-sized companies has been
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice * Mauldin Economics - The Influence of Affluence - Marc Faber 4/12 Markets / Economy WSJ - Inflation Is Back, But Don't Worry - Steven Russolillo 4/12 * "Good news: Inflation just topped a key milestone. Even better news: It doesn't look poised to zoom
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Real Estate WSJ - Teachers, Police Priced Out of America's Big Metro Areas - Laura Kusisto 4/12 * "Rising home prices are putting America's largest metropolitan areas out of reach for teachers, police officers and other big slices of the U.S. workforce." * "In all,
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice FT - When it comes to investing, human stupidity beats AI - Miles Johnson 4/10 * "Since their inception, financial markets have been driven by greed and fear. No matter how advanced technology becomes, human nature isn't changing. Or as billionaire Carl Icahn has
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If you were to read only one thing… The US college debt bubble is becoming dangerous. Rana Foroohar. Financial Times. 9 Apr. 2017. "Rapid run-ups in debt are the single biggest predictor of market trouble. So it is worth noting that over the past 10 years the amount
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Perspective Economist - Free exchange: How Chavez and Maduro have impoverished Venezuela 4/6 "It is hard to convey the severity of Venezuela's unfolding crisis. Its extent is astounding: the economy shrank by 10% last year, and will be 23% smaller than in 2013 by the end of
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Okay, I'm prototyping here. Bottom line it's finally gotten through my thick skull that assembling a weeks worth of content and putting it out there once-a-week is a LOT to consume all-at-once. So I'm going to try a new angle
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Increases in 401(k) leakage do not bode well for US retirements. Australian house price bubble. The hard facts about coal. Headlines NYT - Venezuela Muzzles Legislature, Moving Closer to One-Man Rule 3/30. It's been a few decades since a Latin American country has regressed into a