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Higher Minimum Wages Could Crater Your Portfolio – Unless You Own Companies Like This One

By Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Map Report • @kfgtotalwealth - March 31, 2016

California's new, state-mandated $15 minimum wage sounds appealing, but it could have startling economic ramifications.

Fortunately, we've found a stock with the balance sheets and pricing power necessary to withstand any increased labor costs.

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Higher Minimum Wages Could Crater Your Portfolio – Unless You Own Companies Like This One

By Keith Fitz-Gerald, Chief Investment Strategist, Money Map Report • @kfgtotalwealth - March 31, 2016

California's new, state-mandated $15 minimum wage sounds appealing, but it could have startling economic ramifications.

Fortunately, we've found a stock with the balance sheets and pricing power necessary to withstand any increased labor costs.

Obamacare Facts: Why the Unions Feel Betrayed

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - March 12, 2014

After working tirelessly to get Obamacare passed - and spending millions of dollars in the process - labor unions have become some of the healthcare law's most vocal critics. The unions have a long list of grievances, although some non-union members

may find it hard to sympathize...

The 10 U.S. Companies with the Most Minimum Wage Workers

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - February 24, 2014

Whether President Obama succeeds in getting Congress to raise the minimum wage or not, the companies with the most low-wage workers are on notice that this issue will be in the spotlight right through the November mid-term elections.

These companies will feel the most heat...

How the 2014 Minimum Wage Debate Will End

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - February 20, 2014

The latest exchange on raising the minimum wage in 2014 -- triggered by a Congressional Budget Office report that gave ammo to both sides -- is just one chapter in this ongoing political brawl. But as the year wears on, Republicans will find that

this issue will only get more prickly for them...

2014 State of the Union Address: Nine Ideas You'll Hear Tonight and Why They Matter

By Garrett Baldwin, Behavioral Trading Specialist, Money Morning - January 28, 2014

SOTU 2014: U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union address tonight, which means tomorrow most media outlets will graph and "wordcloud" his most used buzzwords like "jobs," "invest," and "innovate."

Instead of waiting until after the SOTU, we put together the nine phrases you're likely to hear tonight - as well as why President Obama needs to address them.

Here's your outline of State of the Union 2014:

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The Surprising Benefits of Raising the Minimum Wage

By David Zeiler, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @DavidGZeiler - December 11, 2013

It's common wisdom that raising the minimum wage is bad for business, and thus bad for the economy. Or is it? Some conservative economists are now arguing that increasing the minimum wage would stimulate the U.S. economy and save the government billions of dollars in addition to improving the lives of low income workers.

It makes more sense than you'd think...