“Crowd Funding” for From the Rough
Yesterday, I went live on a campaign to promote From the Rough through the Indiegogo “crowd-funding” site. You can view and contribute at igg.me/at/FromTheRoughMovie/x/3364292 [https://igg.me/at/
Mike Critelli
The Flawed Congressional Budget Office Report on the Effects of Minimum Wage Increases
The Congressional Budget Office (“the CBO”) published a report on February 18, 2014, with its estimates of the effect of a federal minimum wage increase from $7.25 to $10.10. The headlines
Higher Minimum Wages: “Gentrifying” The Job Market
Over the years, I have met many elected officials, more often than not, Democrats who advocate sweeping changes to “redistribute wealth” or “reduce income inequality.” More often than not, they fail to achieve
The Decline of the Middle Class
Is the Middle Class worse off? As we celebrate Labor Day, there are many op-ed pieces being written about the decline of the American middle class, particularly the “blue collar” jobs that enabled
Henry Ford May Have Been Right, But His Insight Is Irrelevant.
Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer gave a persuasive, but ultimately misleading, TED lecture in the attached video clip in which he makes the argument that reducing tax rates on the rich does not increase
Thank you, Sheila Bair
We are observing the five-year anniversary of one of the most tumultuous months in American economic history, September, 2008, when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, and in which the entire developed world narrowly avoided