incentives
Home builders don’t typically throw incentives at buyers already in backlog, but it’s happening now.
Ton of homes in backlog waiting to close still due to stretched build cycles. Construction costs have yet to decline and lion's share of homes in backlog reflect still elevated build costs, but now having to adjust lower on implied …
ARGENTINA Announces Incentives for OIL & GAS INDUSTRY
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina announced late on Friday a package of tax and customs benefits for the oil and gas industry meant to attract dollars to the South American nation, which is battling crippling inflation and a low level …
MAKE THEM PAY: Why Colleges Don’t Care About Free Speech: It’s incentives more than ideology, and there’s a simple fix.
Regardless of Mr. Treanor’s political views, he has every reason to do this. University administrators get no reward for upholding abstract principles. Their incentive is to quell on-campus outrage and bad press as quickly as possible. Success is widely praised, …
INCENTIVES: 1.8 Million Americans Have Turned Down Jobs To Stay On Unemployment.
A new poll indicates that 1.8 million Americans have turned down job offers in order to stay on unemployment insurance. Morning Consult surveyed 463 out-of-work American adults at the end of June. 13% — roughly one in eight — said …
“Show me the incentives (and the disincentives) and I’ll show you the results”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/more-police-have-retired-or-quit-past-year-ever-new-survey-shows Anybody who wasn’t living under a rock last summer surely remembers the wave of anti-police sentiment that swept across the US. The end result, as we have reported before, is that thousands of cops from departments across the country have …
One Nation Under Greed: The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” …
Putin just went all out pro family unit. Incentives, slashed taxes, the works.
Unlike Western countries who seek 3rd world population replacement therapy, Russia seems to be taking a more realistic and pragmatic approach as they are calling on all aspects of church, state and education to promote… BABIES. Long list of new …
Some clear thinking about Amazon’s ‘shocking’ tax incentives
by Simon Black Amazon made big headlines yesterday when it announced it was walking away from its plan to build a new headquarters in New York City. The company was under intense pressure from the media and politicians who were angered …
INSANE: ‘Incentives to Break the Law’: Student Rips ‘Absurd’ Bill Allowing Illegal Aliens to Apply for Financial Aid
This is crazy , 9 States now give financial aid to ILLEGAL Aliens! Deport them! __ A Rutgers student blasted a new bill that allows illegal aliens attending college in New Jersey to apply for and receive financial aid. “It’s …
Basic Income Programs The destruction of incentives
Basic Income Programs The destruction of incentives (Link to article below) http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/what-happens-when-you-offer-basic-income-for-not-working-people-stop-working?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1525179754
Sen. Cruz’s Inflation Tax Bill Exposes Government’s Perverse Incentives
Interview with: Jim Rickards Jim Rickards Forecasts New Financial Crisis & Makes Prediction about Gold https://s3.amazonaws.com/ILB_MS_BUCKET/ILB-180420-WeeklyMarketWrap.mp3 Don’t want to listen? Read the podcast below! Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason. Coming up we’ll hear from Jim Rickards …
Our Strange Attraction to Self-Destructive Behaviors, Choices and Incentives
by Charles Hugh-Smith Self-destruction isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of our socio-economic system. The gravitational pull of self-destructive behaviors, choices and incentives is scale-invariant, meaning that we can discern the strange attraction to self-destruction in the entire scale of …
Markets vs Centrally Planned economies – It is all about the incentives
Markets vs Centrally Planned economies – It is all about the incentives (Link to Antony’s Book Procrastination Annihilation below) https://www.beyourselfandloveit.com/e…
Un-Merry Christmas: The Perverse Incentives to Over-Consume and Over-Spend
by Charles Hugh-Smith Isn’t it obvious that if we set out to design the most perverse, toxic and doomed system possible, we’d end up with the Keynesian Cargo Cult’s insane permanent growth/Landfill Economy? Few topics are off-limits nowadays: the personal and …
Auto Industry Resorts to Biggest Incentives Ever Just to Slow the Decline in Sales, Last Time Automakers Tried This Was In 2009!
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter In a few days, automakers are going to report their new vehicle deliveries for March. TrueCar, Kelley Blue Book, and LMC Automotive are predicting total vehicle sales slightly above the flat-line compared to March a year …