In honor of the start of the holiday season, I am embracing my inner Grinch. Not the early, stingy Grinch, but the one whose heart grew three times after understanding the true meaning of the season.
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Given a renewed focus on the fragility of our health and the surge in job leavers and changers currently, this would seem to be an especially important Open Enrollment benefit season.
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The labor market bounced back in October with the economy adding 531,000 new positions, the upper end of the range of estimates, and revisions to the two previous months added an additional 235,000 than previously reported.
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It’s Medicare open enrollment season, which means that more than 60 million Americans over the age of 65 have within their grasp a fat, softcover book, Medicare & You handbook, that is likely destined for the recycling bin.
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Just in time for Halloween, two reports spooked economists. Does this mean that the U.S. economy looks like zombies from The Walking Dead?
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The frenzied pace of the housing market has started to abate, but that means that instead of boiling over, the market is just hot.
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Examples of gray rhinos include the 2008 housing bubble crash and the Greek debt crisis. I would like to add one more to the list: U.S. child care, a long-ignored threat to family finances and economic growth, that lurks in plain sight.
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The labor market remained somewhat anemic in September, with the economy adding 194,00 new positions, 300,000 fewer than expected.
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Like a recurring bad dream, the debt ceiling is back in the news. The periodic political spasm over increasing the amount of money that the government is authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations is not new, but because it comes on the tail end of a global pandemic, it seems horribly ill-timed.
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