That's right, back with another great post from our favorite humor blog:
always low standards for research. always.
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a study this week that sent economists scrambling to reexamine long-held assumptions regarding the fundamental workings of our economy.
In the study, the EPI found that if Wal-Mart paid its workers more, the company would make less money.
We found it hard to believe too thinking perhaps it was merely an optical illusion or maybe just a Sudoku puzzle gone horribly wrong, but we’ve run the numbers several times ourselves making use of such complex mathematical concepts as subtraction (thanks for making me stick it out in the first grade, dad, instead of abandoning my education for a career in finger painting and "seeing how far you have to drop a watch to make it break") and sure enough, if you increase costs, profits go down. It’s just uncanny. ... More
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