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A massive new study debunks a widespread theory for Donald Trump’s success – The Washington Post

Max Ehrenfreund and Jeff Guo8 years ago023 mins

(Rachel Orr/The Washington Post) Economic distress and anxiety across working-class white America have become a widely discussed explanation for the success of Donald Trump. It seems to make sense. Trump’s most fervent supporters tend to be white men without college degrees. This same group has suffered economically in our increasingly globalized world, as machines have replaced workers in factories and labor…

The Playbook Interview: Warren Buffett – POLITICO

DANIEL LIPPMAN and JAKE SHERMAN8 years ago014 mins

American Household Credit Card Debt Statistics: 2015 – NerdWallet

Erin El Issa8 years ago027 mins

Debt is an unwelcome guest at the table in many American households. The average U.S. household with debt carries $15,310 in credit card debt and $132,086 in total debt. It’s easy to say we should simply pay off our balances and free ourselves of the burdens — financial and emotional — that come with…

Once seen as recession-proof, the funeral industry is in a death spiral. Some owners are staving off the end by catering to a new generation’s burial tastes | Crain’s New York Business

Hilary Potkewitz8 years ago027 mins

Height – 3646 | Width – 5353 Photo: Buck Ennis MARCHING ON: A Chinese family begins a funeral procession from Wan Shou Funeral Home. Brooklyn’s burial businesses have needed to adapt to the burial rites of new populations—or die. After 40 years of working in Williamsburg, Keith Senko thought he’d heard and seen it…

Note to Philip Hammond: In ALL 32 OECD countries that cut spending, economic growth was seriously damaged

Geoff Tily8 years ago018 mins

Philip Hammond MP. Photo: Oli Scarff Note to Philip Hammond: In ALL 32 OECD countries that cut spending, economic growth was seriously damaged 14 Jul 2016, by Geoff Tily in Economics Since 2010, under the direction of international organisations and most economists, governments across the world have cut spending in order to restore public finances…

The 1% are recovering from 2008 recession while 99% are still waiting | Business | The Guardian

Jana Kasperkevic8 years ago05 mins

The top 1% of Americans are finally recovering from the great recession. A new analysis of IRS data revealed that the average income of the top 1% of income earners grew by 7.7% in 2015, reaching $1.36m. Report author Emmanuel Saez, an economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley, calculated earlier this year that the…

90% Of June Job Gains Went To Workers 55 And Older | Zero Hedge

Tyler Durden8 years ago03 mins

While the algos have long forgotten about today’s job report whose headline was good enough to unleash an epic buying spree which has pushed the S&P to the highest level since July 2015, a quick read between the lines reveals a continuation of some recent troubling trends, namely that all job gains in recent years…

The myth of millennial entitlement was created to hide their parents’ mistakes — Quartz

Sarah Kendzior8 years ago014 mins

Three years ago, TIME magazine published a cover story called “The Me Me Me Generation—Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents.” It was the print version of clickbait, designed to be devoured by TIME’s Baby Boomer base, or perhaps flipped through angrily by millennials killing time at TIME’s most reliable subscriber,…

Mexico Cuts Spending After Brexit Vote Causes Assets to Tumble – Bloomberg

Isabella Cota8 years ago8 years ago04 mins

Mexico announced it would cut federal spending by 31.7 billion pesos ($167.9 billion), reducing the country’s international funding needs as emerging-market assets worldwide tumble following the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union. A decision on whether to increase the country’s key interest rate will be made next week at a June 30 board meeting…

DOW DROPS 500 POINTS, S&P WORST OPEN SINCE 1986

Evelyn Cheng8 years ago8 years ago02 mins

U.S. stocks opened sharply lower Friday, reversing recent gains in a global risk-off trade after Britain surprised markets by voting to leave the European Union. The S&P 500 opened 1.88 percent lower in 1986, according to Howard Silverblatt of S&P Dow Jones Indices. Ahead of the U.S. stock market open, pound sterling held off session…

Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She’s been one of its biggest obstacles. – The Washington Post

Publishers turn to other platforms to address platform referral traffic issues – Digiday

Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites

Brands Paid for Ads on Forbes.com. Some Ran on a Copycat Site Instead. – WSJ

G/O Media and Kotaku staff are locked in a battle for the gaming website’s soul and business – Digiday

Inside The Secret Meetings To Define MFA | AdExchanger

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A massive new study debunks a widespread theory for Donald Trump’s success – The Washington Post

The Playbook Interview: Warren Buffett – POLITICO

American Household Credit Card Debt Statistics: 2015 – NerdWallet

Once seen as recession-proof, the funeral industry is in a death spiral. Some owners are staving off the end by catering to a new generation’s burial tastes | Crain’s New York Business

Note to Philip Hammond: In ALL 32 OECD countries that cut spending, economic growth was seriously damaged

The 1% are recovering from 2008 recession while 99% are still waiting | Business | The Guardian

90% Of June Job Gains Went To Workers 55 And Older | Zero Hedge

The myth of millennial entitlement was created to hide their parents’ mistakes — Quartz

Mexico Cuts Spending After Brexit Vote Causes Assets to Tumble – Bloomberg

DOW DROPS 500 POINTS, S&P WORST OPEN SINCE 1986