by Daniel White | May 8, 2017 | Economy
May 8, 2017 Not only are we losing retailers at an amazing clip, but it seems free market pricing is going by the wayside too. That’s because online retailers are using our data against us. Where consumers would use the web to compare prices between companies,...
by Daniel White | May 1, 2017 | Economy
May 1, 2017 News about the retail industry tends to crop up around the holidays, but if you look around, you’ll notice there is a lot going on with retail stores across the country – as in, a lot of them are closing. Almost 3,000 store closings have been announced so...
by Daniel White | Apr 24, 2017 | Economy
April 24, 2017 The U.S. isn’t perfect – no country is. We have our issues at home and abroad. That said, some would have you think we’re in decline. But for all its imperfections, our country continues to dominate the global economy by a wide margin. Exhibit A is the...
by Daniel White | Apr 17, 2017 | Economy
April 17, 2017 So much of the talk lately is about the income gap – that incomes for the rich are rising much faster than for the poor. Well, wages have risen fast for the top 1 percent of earners for decades. It’s the haves vs. the have nots playing out in chart...
by Daniel White | Apr 10, 2017 | Economy
April 10, 2017 We’re not supposed to discuss politics at parties. Well, we may want to exclude politics from our investments too. The fact is, markets have performed much better under Democratic presidents than Republican ones. That seems to defy conventional...
