re: 12 hours until December unemployment and jobs reports - guesses?

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It is forcing businesses to pile resources into meeting that regulation instead of reinvestment.

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This is true to an extent and in particular for smaller and medium size businesses.

But as far as big business goes, it's not a lack of capital to reinvest.

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The second is the retirement of the baby boomer generation. The baby boomer generation is a large population of employed people leaving the work force.

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This will eventually be a good thing.