Recent content from Lee Schafer
Lack of diversity among top executives contributes to racial wealth gap
Wealth inequality does not get nearly the attention it deserves, and nothing like the focus on income inequality.It's the hand-wringing over the role played by…
Schafer: Think the stock market has made big moves? Take a look at home values
What's happened since the beginning of the pandemic this year isn't exactly a normal recession.
Schafer: Here's why the $600 weekly jobless benefit meant so much to the U.S. economy
Even if Congress and the White House decided to continue the benefit, odds are slim it remains $600 per week.
Schafer: We might wear our masks yet if behavioral science is correct
Making decisions, over and over throughout a day, can use up our capacity for self-control.
Schafer: Big law firms embraced small-business loan program, and for good reason
It wasn't about making sure the rock stars kept getting paid but ensuring the crew members did.
Schafer: Stock market rising on the indispensable companies
The boomers and Xers remember when Microsoft was so dominant that a federal judge ordered it broken up. That year of peak Microsoft…
Schafer: How major league teams can still make money in front of empty stands
Is this the year that sports moves closer to completing its transition from an in-person experience to a reality TV show?
Schafer: Work from home is not about the place
The reasons some employers canned flexible work programs were what you would expect. Yet those seem like correctable management mistakes.
Schafer: An adjustment here, an adjustment there, soon you're talking real money
It's no defense of adjusting numbers for the virus to point out that investors see adjusted financial information all the time
Schafer: As threat vigilance ends, a new way of work is taking shape
The worst days of the spread of infection in our country’s COVID-19 pandemic were not in April after all. They were last week. There was…