Robert R. Rowley PS

Attorney at Law


Category: Economics

Media Usage By Age – Business Insider

Media Usage By Age – Business Insider

The shift to digital that has demolished some print publications is very much generational. And, from a generational perspective, this shift is only just beginning. Media consumers in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s grew up reading newspapers and magazines. Old habits die hard. Many of these consumers will never be as comfortable with digital […]

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Why the SBA Won’t Partner With Alternative Lenders – WSJ.com

Why the SBA Won’t Partner With Alternative Lenders – WSJ.com

In a recent Forbes column, the CEO of Lendio, posed the question: “Should the SBA Make Room for Alternative Lenders?” His argument was that banks aren’t the only place small businesses can go for capital anymore and that alternative lenders have a “big role to play in the future of small business lending.” About the […]

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How Young People Can Get Rich Slowly – Business Insider

How Young People Can Get Rich Slowly – Business Insider

Hurdle number one People spend too much money. They decide that they need the newest iPhone, the most fashionable clothes, the fanciest car, or a Cancun vacation. Say you’re earning $50,000 per year, 15% of which is $7,500, or $625 per month. In this day and age, that’s a painfully thin margin of saving, and […]

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How To Stay Motivated Working From Home – Business Insider

How To Stay Motivated Working From Home – Business Insider

Working from home has plenty of perks. You have a two-second commute, more flexibility, and fewer distractions. That’s part of the reason why the number of people who work from home at least one day per week rose from 9.5 million in 1999 to 13.4 million in 2010, according to the U.S. Census. But, for […]

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The schedule of proposed wage increases in Seattle and Washington State

The schedule of proposed wage increases in Seattle and Washington State

                              The schedule of wage increases over time in Seattle and in Washington State via Twitter / Mayor_Ed_Murray: The schedule of wage increases ….

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Conscientiousness Predicts Success – Business Insider

Conscientiousness Predicts Success – Business Insider

                                    The only major personality trait that consistently leads to success is conscientiousness. “It’s emerging as one of the primary dimensions of successful functioning across the lifespan,” Paul Tough writes in “How Children Succeed.” “It really goes cradle to grave […]

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Washington Ranked 27th & Idaho Ranked 40th On Resident’s Desire To Move Elsewhere

Washington Ranked 27th & Idaho Ranked 40th On Resident’s Desire To Move Elsewhere

Half in Illinois and Connecticut Want to Move Elsewhere Montana, Hawaii, Maine boast lowest rate of residents wanting to leave by Lydia Saad PRINCETON, NJ — Every state has at least some residents who are looking for greener pastures, but nowhere is the desire to move more prevalent than in Illinois and Connecticut. In both […]

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21 Favorite Quotes About Markets And Investing

21 Favorite Quotes About Markets And Investing

One Trader’s 21 Favorite Quotes About Markets And Investing SHANE OLIVER, AMP CAPITAL, BUSINESS INSIDER AUSTRALIA APR. 30, 2014, 5:32 AM 4,067 2 Investing can be scary and confusing at times. But the basic principles of successful investing are timeless and quotes from some experts help illuminate these. This note looks at those I find […]

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The World’s Resources Aren’t Running Out – WSJ.com

How many times have you heard that we humans are “using up” the world’s resources, “running out” of oil, “reaching the limits” of the atmosphere’s capacity to cope with pollution or “approaching the carrying capacity” of the land’s ability to support a greater population? The assumption behind all such statements is that there is a […]

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Younger People Still Living At Home – Why The Housing Market Is Still Holding Back the Economy. Here’s Why. – NYTimes.com

Younger People Still Living At Home – Why The Housing Market Is Still Holding Back the Economy. Here’s Why. – NYTimes.com

Jed Kolko, chief economist at the real estate information company Trulia, estimates that by last year there were 2.3 million of these“missing” households — households that would exist if historicalpatterns had held, but instead are nowhere to be found. Why the missing households? To a large degree, they can be explained by young people choosing […]

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