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@grossdm

Author of books. Writer of columns at Slate, DailyBeast, Newsweek, Yahoo!. Purveyor of one-liners. Opinions my own.

Westport, Ct/New York
Joined May 2009
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  1. 14 hours ago

    Quel Horreur!!! Wall Street's Jim Paulsen: The 10-year yield could go as high as 3.5% if worker pay continues to rise

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  2. 16 hours ago

    Homes and cars are the items most dependent on credit for purchase. Sales of both are down to flat this year. And notice how car and home stock indices rolled over in January

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  3. 16 hours ago

    kind of ominous that so many of these consumer-oriented recent IPO companies are performing so poorly at this stage in the economic cycle

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  4. 19 hours ago

    large scale solar being built in Denmark without subsidies

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  5. Oct 3

    your monthly reminder that autos are america's biggest manufacturing sector and america's biggest retail sector. And sales are down so far this year

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  6. Oct 2

    genius

    LAZ ‘R’ US. Selling that headline. Serious offers only.
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  7. Oct 2

    Color me skeptical,, but I think the insanely tight labor market has much more to do with self-imposed minimum wage increases than social pressure

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  8. Oct 2

    Eric Reid schooling sports reporters on the New Deal is pretty awesome

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  9. Oct 2

    Bar fights ranked: 1. Salad bar fights: when someone takes the last green olives 2. Barre Method fights: when someone takes your favorite spot on the floor 3. Bar Mitzvah fights: when someone hogs all the little hot dogs during cocktail hour.

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    Oct 2

    Incredibly excited about our new series on climate change. Here's and with a deep look at how the insurance industry is recalculating the cost.

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  11. Oct 2

    A country with a population of about 5.7 million, but still.

    Denmark plans to phase out sales of new ICEs: By 2030: hybrids, EVs and fuel cell vehicles only By 2035: EVs and fuel cells only.
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  12. Oct 2

    Yowza! Italy yields hit 4-1/2-year high as lawmaker sparks euro exit fears -

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  13. Oct 2

    The marginal price for temporary work for the Holidays may indeed be $15 an hour. But you can't offer the temporary people significantly more than the wages being paid to existing employees. They'd leave! 4/

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  14. Oct 2

    Offering $10 an hour, or $12 an hour, or gift cards or other perks won't do the trick. We have a huge shortage of people who are able and willing to work these kinds of jobs. So you have to offer substantially higher wages than they can get at other work 3/

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  15. Oct 2

    Unemployment is really low. There are 6.6 million jobs open in the US already. And you need to hire 50,000, 80,000, 100,000 people for temporary work for the Holiday season, or else your year is shot 2/

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  16. Oct 2

    one of the ironies is that the need by large companies to hire large numbers of temporary holiday workers may be fueling across-the-board pay increases 1/

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  17. Oct 2

    Good stuff.

    This story by is currently the most-read on the Bloomberg terminal:
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  18. Oct 2

    Norms matter. When very large employers start making the minimum wage $15, the smaller companies that compete with them for labor will have to raise their own minimum wage.

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  19. Oct 1

    red red whine

    Everybody seems the same age on Twitter until you mention UB40, and then it's like those whistles that only people of certain ages can hear
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  20. Oct 1

    "Listen, mon ami. We serve dos equis beer; but we don't serve beer to des equi"

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    BAR HOPPING: Runaway racehorse gallops into a French sports bar, sending patrons running for their lives.
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