Interesting article about manufacturing in the USA in this week’s Sunday Boston Globe: “Made in the USA“.
Key quote:
Americans make more “stuff” than any other nation on earth, and by a …

Interesting blog post over at Harvard Business Review: “Time for a New Five-Dollar Day.”
The basic gist is we need a leader like Henry Ford who had the foresight to give …

Did you see this article in Time Magazine? “The Rent Too Damn High in Dubai? Not So Much“.
Apparently 825 of the Burj Khalifa’s 900 ultra-luxury apartments remain unoccupied. (I …

Aw frigging hell: “Say goodbye to full-time jobs with benefits.”
James Stoeckmann, senior practice leader at WorldatWork, a professional association of human resource executives, believes that full-time employees could become the …

Again with the Freakonomics blog on the New York Times: “An Important Human Right.”
Subsidized vacations for citizens over 65, kids between the ages of 18 and 25, and families facing …

Articles like this make me want to throw up: “Overqualified? Yes, but Happy to Have a Job.”

I talked about Social Security’s woes back in January and August of last year (None Too Secure and None Too Secure (part 2)).
But it’s a whole lot worse now: “Social …

The Christian Science Monitor has some new words from our current economic times. Check out: “Recession slang: 10 new terms for a new economy.”
Sigh:
2. Permatemp, n. The condition of …

Umair Haque has a good blog up at Harvard Business Review about economic recovery: “The Real Roots of the Recovery.”
In it he calls the economy “thin”, likening it to Paris …

I’m not a fan of the Country or the Western, but I have a great title for a song: “Can I Borrow Some Rope For a Noose?”

Apparently land prices in Florida are getting so low that citrus growers are buying land from developers instead of selling land to developers.
Check out the Orlando Sentinel on the topic: …

Stories like this are bad to read at five in the morning: “The New Poor: Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs.”
Of course, I never even got unemployment, so that …

Just started reading this article from the March issue of The Atlantic: “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America“. Might not be a good way to start my …

Apparently there’s only sardine cannery in the United States: in Prospect Harbor, Maine.
But in two months there’ll be none.
Got that fun fact from this Bangor Daily News article: “State plans …

Just found out that I didn’t get another job. This one a temp position. At a place where a co-worker / friend knows the president.
Ack.
Guess I should have …

Oh joy: “Use of Temps May No Longer Signal Permanent Hiring.”