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Impatient Evaluation
From the time of his Inauguration, I have been fretting over whether or not our obsession with “Internet speed” would corrupt a fair assessment of Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office. Even without the benefit of an Internet platform,...
The People Voice From the People’s Republic
Yesterday I tried to examine some of the “official” language that had begun to emerge in the wake of the devastating fire in Shanghai, primarily for the sake of comparing it with some of our own “official” language currently...
The Word That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Steve Schifferes’ analysis for BBC NEWS of the first day of the proceedings of the World Economic Forum in Davos focused (as it should have done) on the view of the world economy from Chinese and Russian perspectives: In his first appearance...
A Timely Celebration for the Times
There has been a fair amount of discussion (sometimes contentious) on Web sites such as Truthdig over whether or not the celebratory excesses surrounding the Inauguration of Barack Obama are in order in a time of economic crisis. However, when compared...
U.S. Outsourcing to Increase in 2009 – Political Opinion
The trends of outsourcing and offshoring will continue at an even greater pace in 2009 as the economy remains mired in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and companies look to make strategic cost-cutting measures to weather the storm,...
State of the U.S. Economy December 2008
What many Americans have felt all year is now official: The U.S. economy has been in a recession since December 2007. And things aren’t looking to get better. The labor market recession is worsening at an accelerated pace.
U.S. Job Openings Dwindling As Unemployment Climbs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released the October Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) data, which indicates that there were only 3.1 million job openings in the U.S. economy, down nearly 25% from the start of the recession in December...
Recession Or Depression Has America Lost the Means to Recover? – Political Opinion
Speaking in front of members of Congress on Tuesday, economist Peter Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland, said the job loss experienced in November “was much worse than was expected … The threat of a widespread depression is...
