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Here's why one entrepreneur hired on an HR person to take care of overtime pay. more >>

Ideas about having affordable fun and keeping out of the poorhouse with marriage. more >>

Faulty government numbers are out of step with economic reality. more >>

Does the American economy really need low-skilled, low-wage Mexican immigrants? We sure do, according to the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican. The satirical movie imagines what would happen to California if suddenly 14 million of its citizens of Mexican descent up and disappeared. more >>

Lethal Weapon star Danny Glover followed through on his ultimatum to not speak at the UC-Berkeley commencement unless the school resolved its wage dispute with its custodial workers, the Daily Californian reports. University Chancellor Robert Birgeneau spoke instead, while protesters picketed outside the ceremony. more >>

It's Round 4 of the inaugural Capital Commerce slugfest between Donald Luskin, chief investment officer at Trend Macrolytics, an economics and investing consulting firm, and Barry Ritholtz, proprietor of Ritholtz Research & Analytics. In addition to being practitioners of the "dismal science" and finding much to fault in each other's analyses, they're bloggers: Luskin writes The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid, and Ritholtz authors The Big Picture. more >>

Remember how one of James Baker's rationales for the Persian Gulf War, beta version, back in 1991 was "jobs, jobs, jobs"? See, that's pretty much the heart of my amateur rationale for why I think the economy will avoid a recession this year despite all the fears about housing. Jobs, jobs, jobs. more >>