Amazon isn’t just hiring warehouse workers — it’s hiring a bunch of salespeople

Amazon had a massive jobs fair on Wednesday to fill 50,000 positions across its warehouse facilities. Those jobs account for the vast majority of Amazon’s 380,000 employees. But the fastest-growing part of Amazon’s workforce has nothing to do with stocking...

Markets ‘married to 1987’ economic models, Fed policy more forward-thinking, says economist

Federal Reserve policy and mechanism has kept up with the pace of technological change while markets are stuck in the past, according to an economist. “First of all, we markets are married to 1987 models of the Phillips Curve, the relationship between employment...