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Wealth Inequality Might Be Hurting Families’ Retail Budgets

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More often than not, the discussions revolve around economic redistribution as some kind of zero-sum game between the haves and have-nots — the side with the most money is the side that wins. The picture is even more dire for families on the lower end of the income spectrum. percent in 2014 from just 8.8 percent in 2009).

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 The Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Rethinking And Realigning

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It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. New To The Market: A Secure Credit Card And A Sneak Peak Theatrical Release. Amazon and Synchrony Financial are partnering up on a new secured card credit offer for Amazon Prime members looking to rebuild their credit. market share.

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Tune In To Payments Reality Check!

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He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. Ken Rogoff is an esteemed professor of economics at Harvard University. It’s not the safest thing to do, nor is it the most financially sophisticated, but it makes some people feel secure. Welcome to Payments Reality Check.

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Resetting Work/Life Balance By Getting Paid For Expertise

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And so, I started then providing educational meetings on social security, and Medicare, and other topics, state planning. If I helped somebody make some social security and Medicare decisions, then they were asking me if they could roll money over and raising their hand. Who comes to a conversation about social security and Medicare?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Anything else?

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Transcript: Angus Deaton

Barry Ritholtz

He is so knowledgeable about so many unusual areas in economics. You’re the author of 200 plus papers, six books, deaths of Despair, which you wrote with Anne Case who happens to be your wife, was a New York Times bestseller and your latest book, economics in America, an Immigrant Economist, explores the Land of inequality.

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Transcript: Steve Case

Barry Ritholtz

How do we move around in terms of transportation? The math never seems to work out. The interesting thing about this economic development battle where different states are fighting with each other over the same existing companies has sort of zero sum for America. What do we eat? How do we learn? How do we invest?