The website of economist and keynote speaker Linda Nazareth, expert in demographics, global trends and the future of work
Of course I like Whole Foods. How can you not? It is like going to a carnival, almost. The cheeses are beautifully displayed with generous samples offered, the prepared food aisles are filled with yummy products you never knew you wanted, the flowers are always blooming. The bakery counter is an adventure in itself (if […]
Want to deal with the problem of income inequality? The answer is not, as many argue, to simply do a Robin Hood steal-from-the-rich-and-give-to-the-poor thing. According to a new study by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) , the best way to deal with inequities is to build strong economies, then use some of the newly created […]
Apparently, there is now a ‘vacation penalty’ in North American workplaces. Heading to the beach? Sure, go ahead, but your career might go nowhere. That gloomy scenario is according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, and it says a lot to me about the severity of the recession (the one that ended like […]
Free markets or authors? Book sellers or publishing companies? If you support one player, can you not support another? That seems to be the convoluted case as it is being played out by Amazon.com and the publishing company The Hachette Book Group, and it leaves authors and readers (like me in both cases) in a […]
The news on U.S. personal incomes over the past decade or so has been pretty dismal, and following the recession it has been especially dismal. The one bright spot, however, has been for women who as a gender have somehow managed to move ahead even as the economy stagnated. Unfortunately, however, a new report by […]
It is kind of an urban myth, if you’ll pardon the pun: there is a story afoot that people are leaving the suburbs and moving back to the cities. I’ve written about the trend myself, but honestly perhaps the best evidence that it is true are the endless condos that are sprouting up it seems […]
‘Financial Repression’ or the generational divide over low interest rates.
Well, its jobs week in the U.S. so let’s take a look at a stat that sometimes gets overlooked: the harshly-named ‘Job Losers Not on Layoff as a Percent of Total Unemployed’
See my Globe and Mail Economy Lab post here
See my Globe and Mail Economy Lab blog..