Larry Edelman
Financial Columnist at The Boston Globe
Columnist @BostonGlobe. Formerly with @WSJ, @Bloomberg, and, yes, @BostonGlobe before there was an @Twitter.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Larry Edelman
In the DC Comics universe, Bizarro World is a place where beauty is despised, ugliness is prized, and it’s a crime to make anything perfect. Donald Trump’s America has its own Bizarro logic: to Make America Great Again, the president is determined to kneecap the very institutions that made our economy great in the first place.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Larry Edelman
This column is from Trendlines, my business newsletter that covers the forces shaping the economy in Boston and beyond. If you’d like to receive it via email on Mondays and Thursdays, sign up here. Investors are getting yippy again. Stocks were mostly lower Thursday after two days of losses, as House Republicans eked out a one-vote victory to pass President Trump’s deficit-busting tax-cut and spending bill.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Larry Edelman
This column is from Trendlines, my business newsletter that covers the forces shaping the economy in Boston and beyond. If you’d like to receive it via email on Mondays and Thursdays, sign up here. In normal times, running Harvard University is a stressful but straightforward job: raise ungodly amounts of money, protect the school’s prestige, and keep a fractious faculty in line.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Larry Edelman
When it comes to the Massachusetts job market, the song remains the same. The state’s unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent in April, the fourth straight monthly increase, as more people began job searches and hiring remained muted, according to federal data released Friday by the Healey administration. The uptick, from 4.4 percent in March, put the state’s jobless rate at its highest level in more than 3 ½ years. The national rate in April, which was reported two weeks ago, was 4.2 percent.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Larry Edelman
This column is from Trendlines, my business newsletter that covers the forces shaping the economy in Boston and beyond. If you’d like to receive it via email on Mondays and Thursdays, sign up here. Mark Williams, a Boston University finance professor, spent four months assessing the impact of President Trump’s policies on the Massachusetts economy.
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