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Why Hasn’t the California Globe Retracted Its Story?

The Big Picture

Right up top, we have the lede: Earlier in June, the Globe reported that California has lost just under 10,000 fast food jobs since the new $20 minimum wage for fast food employees was first signed into law late last year, according to the California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA). Baby steps. No, dear reader. They have not.

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Seattle Redux: Misunderstanding Seasonal Adjustments

The Big Picture

What followed in the immediate aftermath of both the announcement and implementation was nothing less than a apocalyptic, collective head explosion on the right about the devastating effects the increase would have, particularly in the food services sector: However, there’s little doubt that the city’s heralded food scene is running scared.

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Saturday links: communities coming together

Abnormal Returns

bakadesuyo.com) Numbers are persuasive up to a point. wsj.com) Food Egg producers are rapidly transitioning to cage-free operations. fooddive.com) The success story that is Siete Foods. npr.org) The math on farmed fish doesn't work. (wired.com) What happens when a connected device is no longer supported.

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10 Friday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. A flair for comfort food is understandably a requisite skill for any chef working in this environment. (

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Weekly Market Insights – January 8, 2024

Cornerstone Financial Advisory

Math errors: Simple addition and subtraction mistakes can delay your return. Consider using electronic filing software that does the math automatically to avoid mistakes. Giving an incorrect account number can delay your refund even further. Masticating juicers “chew” the food and are slower. What is it?

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Going All In To Solve A Retirement Shortfall (Part 2)

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Food, various utilities (a lot of things lumped in here), other insurances, what else? Do the bottom up work, it won't take long, to figure out some real numbers. Simple math is that this person needs to save $23/yr to come up with that additional $350,000. But simple math tells you that adding $5000/yr likely won't cut it.

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14 Most Useful Personal Finance Ratios And How To Apply Them

Clever Girl Finance

The term personal finance ratios might give you flashbacks to math class, learning various formulas, equations, and ratios. In mathematical terms, a ratio is essentially a way to compare two numbers. Since finance is all about numbers, that can come in handy in many ways especially when making financial calculations!

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