Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke thinks the US labor market is a ‘Long Way’ from normal. Sounds like there’s room for improvement, right? Wrong. The labor market isn’t far from normal, it is normal. The problem is that the definition … Read More
Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail To Keep Their Best Talent — Forbes.
Robert Reich gets to the heart of the matter. “For most of the last century, the basic bargain at the heart of the American economy was that employers paid their workers enough to buy what American employers were selling.”
Even after the recession was declared “over”, US incomes kept falling — twice as fast as during the recession. One reason pay has stagnated is that many people who lost their jobs in the recession — and remained out of work for months — have taken … Read More
You’re sitting at your computer or holding your smartphone while reading this so you probably don’t care but an additional 2.6 million people slipped below the poverty line in 2010. The recession is also affecting the middle class: “real median … Read More
Steve Denning, writing in Forbes, explains Why Amazon Can’t Make A Kindle In the USA. Please read this article. Then read it again. Then read parts 2 and 3 twice. I’ve been talking about this for years but it takes a … Read More
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