Stay updated with breaking news from Daniel Alpert. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to investment banker Daniel Alpert, a senior fellow in financial macroeconomics and an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, about the pandemic economy and low wage jobs.
But it's helping people finally be picky about turning down lousy jobs.
Joe Raedle/Getty Image Commercial real estate — hotels, malls, offices — are facing down massive post-pandemic problems. We can all see the work from home and ecommerce trends coming and the CRE disaster seems like a slow motion trainwreck. And that trainwreck could drag the rest of the US economy down with it. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. Back in 2016, a colleague of mine, Michelle Wuc ker, published a terrific book entitled "The Gray Rhino." The title alludes to humans stalking the grey rhinoceros, a species wid...
The U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index (JQI)® February 2021 Share Article U.S. Private Sector Job Quality Index Revised to 81.58, from Previous Month - Reflecting a Lower Proportion of Low Quality Production and Non-Supervisory Jobs Relative to the Total of All Such Jobs. More workers in Low Quality jobs who were laid off during the peak crisis months, returned to their jobs starting in mid-year and through the fall of 2020, were again laid off in November 2020 through January 2021. This trend dramatically reversed itself in February. NEW YORK (PRWEB) ...
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Both the COVID relief package and the infrastructure stimulus will not result in high inflation. There's no reason to fear overheating of the economy. Dan Alpert is an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School and a founding managing partner of the New York investment bank Westwood Capital LLC. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. This is the second of my two columns addressing concerns surrounding the Biden administration's plans to greatly increase the federal government's role in the US economy in t...