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From Markets to Memorial Day Let’s Keep Things in Perspective
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- May 30, 2022
No CommentsWhen thoughts turn to beaches, beer, barbecues and baseball over the three-day Holiday weekend, it’s easy to lose sight of what Memorial Day is all about. We’ve retail-ized the last weekend in May into the official “kickoff to summer” celebration. In reality, we’re supposed to be honoring U.S. military personnel who have died serving in
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Are We in a Bubble?
- by: Hank Berkowitz
- October 28, 2021
Last week’s post about the record high “Quit Rate” of American workers generated a fair amount of feedback. Some said “it’s about time” that workers finally gained some leverage over greedy employers, but the majority questioned the wisdom of workers flexing their bargaining muscles at this stage of the economic cycle. They said it was