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When worker grit falls, the stock market will follow

When worker grit falls, the stock market will follow

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Carl Beijer
Aug 24, 2015
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The Dow’s continuing plummet has clearly caught our economists off guard, but no one should find any of this surprising. Eggheads in the ivory tower like to pretend that the American economy is driven by all kinds of complex and somewhat unknowable factors, but at the end of the day, the market is only as good as the workers who make it. Got unemploymen…

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