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Income-tax time is when you test your powers of deduction. - Shelby Friedman
Stephen King has been on a roll lately. His most recent novel 11/22/63 was a welcome return to form and his best work in years.
One of the things policy wonks are keeping an eye on as the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented is the proportion of employers who stop offering employees insurance and instead give their workers money they can use to pay premiums of plans sold on health insurance exchanges (or marketplaces)
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years

I always get confused at the economists who think the solution to the (non-existent) social security crisis is to raise the retirement rate, totally ignoring 1) the unemployment rate that is already too high, and 2) the rampant age discrimination that exists in the job market of most industries, discrimination that often is not illegal.

Again the ignorance of the working world. If you're living off the stock market already, you're fine. If you're trying to code software as you've done for 45 years, you've got to prove that you still have an edge that 3 fresh-outta-college kids (and that's what you cost) don't actually have. To have to try to prove that for another 3 years? I don't see it happening...

By Joe Shelby (not verified) on 12 May 2011 #permalink