Tag: business
member name: Tim Nelson
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October 31, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
I watched Mr. James Galbraith (the younger) on Bill Moyers' Journal, on PBS last night. He said that we should offer early retirement to guys like me.
The youth of today, he says, need to be employed. . . .
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December 02, 2007 10:24 AM EST --
The Taxpayers League in Minnesota wants to bring capitalism to the public sector, another unnamed group wants to bring socialism (government regulation) to the private sector. The problem is not that either . . .
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November 17, 2008 08:25 PM EST --
Most of the economy was farm related at one time in our past. Today, the farm bill that passed last year to bolster the income of corporate farms owned by millionaires, puts farming squarely into the category . . .
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February 16, 2009 04:34 PM EST --
There are cycles to the economy, and a world-wide depression seems to be one of them, but a large middle class is a doubtful part of the cycle.
The end of WWII, women in the workforce, the baby boom, . . .
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April 16, 2008 08:32 PM EDT --
(Caution, one word near the end could be considered naughty)
Many people can relate to too much overtime at work. The hours and days go by and there is no time to get anything else done. It was at . . .
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March 20, 2009 05:44 PM EDT --
Pension plans. A search for "pension bailouts" gets 1,910,000 hits. Now normally, the dollar ammounts involved here would get most peoples attention, and any retirement plan that has this much . . .
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September 22, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
"I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it's there," Obama said at a rally in Green Bay. "We will fire government managers . . .
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March 26, 2009 12:13 PM EDT --
Since the 80's, all the productivity gains have been by new technology. Worker overtime has actually been a negative balance to the total. At some point, people will realize that a smaller portion . . .
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July 15, 2009 10:27 AM EDT --
Not that long ago, I mentioned that the company downsizing I (almost) survived, had the specialists at the company dropping like flies. Now it seems, I can't go on any forum without getting further examples . . .
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September 28, 2008 11:49 AM EDT --
The strange bedfellows of far left activists, and House Republicans took on bailouts this weekend, with all the expected results. After doubling the size and complexity of the bill every couple of hours, . . .
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February 08, 2009 01:05 PM EST --
As I posted before, people need 3 to 6 months of wages saved in case of a
layoff, the average person has $5,000 in credit card debt, and fewer workers
are actually necessary to conduct business in . . .
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July 13, 2009 02:27 PM EDT --
I'm sure some people remember a study done several years ago. It seems that conservatives are happy optimists, while liberals are sad pessimists.
Conservatives, as a generalization, tend to be pessimistic . . .
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September 20, 2008 02:22 PM EDT --
A do nothing Congress is by definition a shortage of centrists. In the 1970's, a quarter of Congress were aisle-crossing centrists, there is no shortcut to a "do something" congress other . . .
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August 24, 2008 06:02 PM EDT --
In Minnesota, we have a mini-version of the Presidential contest in our Senate race. Al Franken is going up against Norm Coleman. The budget for the two candidates is huge, and the heated ad content is . . .
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January 25, 2009 03:18 PM EST --
The first grid, as always, is nostalgia. Creating "make-work" jobs that are temporary and created mostly to upgrade the public sector. In order for this to be first grid, manual labor must be . . .
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November 08, 2008 04:05 PM EST --
Almost every area of the private sector is hurting right now. Only education, government, and health care are doing well, according to a report out yesterday.
Is this a good sign?
Far from it. . . .
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September 28, 2008 04:50 PM EDT --
Americans have a high standard of living, we consume like pigs, and when the rest of the world grabs a peice, we squeel like a stuck one. Times, they are a-changin'.
New technology cuts overhead, . . .
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