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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 Potkewitz9 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 Tily9 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…

Laurie Penny | Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless

LAURIE PENNY9 years ago025 mins

Pour scorn elsewhere. / Joanna Slodownik Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the backdrop for a modern mania for clean eating, healthy living, personal productivity, and “radical self-love”—the insistence that, in spite of all evidence to the…

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

Jana Kasperkevic9 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…

Overseas investors are ditching the pricey US home market—especially ones from China — Quartz

Zheping Huang9 years ago03 mins

Overseas buyers are now retreating from the US home market, thanks to slackening world economies, higher home prices, and a strong dollar. This week the National Association of Realtors released its annual report on international buying. It found that together, resident and non-resident foreigners invested $102.6 billion in the US home market between April 2015…

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

Tyler Durden9 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 Kendzior9 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,…

Britain Rattles Postwar Order and Its Place as Pillar of Stability – The New York Times

Jim Yardley, Alison Smale, Jane Perlez and Ben Hubbard9 years ago9 years ago019 mins

Photo A protest against the so-called Brexit in Parliament Square in London on Saturday. Credit Adam Ferguson The New York Times LONDON — Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union is already threatening to unravel a democratic bloc of nations that has coexisted peacefully together for decades. But it is also generating uncertainty about…

As the Olympics Near, Brazil and Rio Let the Bad Times Roll – The New York Times

Joe Nocera9 years ago06 mins

In 2009, when Rio de Janeiro won the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games — beating out Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago — Brazil was flying high. Although it had not escaped the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, it had suffered less economic damage, and come back more quickly, than other countries, including the…

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

Isabella Cota9 years ago9 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…

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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

Laurie Penny | Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless

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

Overseas investors are ditching the pricey US home market—especially ones from China — Quartz

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

Britain Rattles Postwar Order and Its Place as Pillar of Stability – The New York Times

As the Olympics Near, Brazil and Rio Let the Bad Times Roll – The New York Times

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