Dow hits a new record, so what?
Start whistling a happy tune because happy days are here again. Right? The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a record high again. On Tuesday, it topped off at 14,559.65. The more relevant index, Standard & Poor’s 500 index, closed just 2 points shy of its all-time high of 1565.15 set in October 2007, Reuters […]
Is the market’s record high just another bubble?
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new all-time high on March 5 of 14,254, surpassing its old peak of 14,164 set on Oct. 9, 2007, and has continued to advance to still higher levels. From this indicator alone, one would think that “we’re back!” Unfortunately, a review of the underlying fundamentals tells a different […]
Where burden of higher minimum wage falls
In an era in which unemployment is the biggest problem facing the economy, raising the minimum wage likely is to exacerbate the issue. Economics 101, taught at every college and university in the free world, instructs us that free markets clear where demand and supply intersect. However, if artificial constraints are imposed and raise the […]