Avert your eyes! MySunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: Inside an International Tech-Support Scam: How a computer hacker infiltrated a phone scam operation exposing fraudsters and their schemes The person who answered asked if he could access Jims computer to ...

https://ritholtz.com/2021/05/sunday-am-reads-10/

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My back to work morning train WFH reads: The Price of the Stuff That Makes Everything Is Surging: Global economic rebound is fueling a blistering commodities rally The prices of raw materials used to make almost everything are skyrocketing, and the upward trajectory looks set to continue as the ...

https://ritholtz.com/2021/05/10-monday-am-reads-308/

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Todays digression will be about prices. In particular, why and how they are rising and what this means to your portfolio. My preface is that I have been writing about Inflation for quite a while; typically, when (for a variety of reasons) the mainstream consensus gets inflation wrong. More on this ...

https://ritholtz.com/2021/05/inflation-partisan/

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My morning train WFH reads: Amid labor shortage, these Pittsburgh companies are filling open roles fast. Heres how. Raise wages: Doubling starting wages from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour generated 1000s of applicants, instead of a trickle. It was instant, overnight. We got thousands of...

https://ritholtz.com/2021/05/10-thursday-am-reads-337/

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