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Limited Good Economic News Won’t Last
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View ArticleCapitalists: Venture vs. Vulture
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View ArticleRecovery? What recovery?
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View ArticleAnd the Occasional Truth Gets Spoken
Every now and then, I seem to run across news articles and/or headlines that seem to be just a bit of an understatement even as they are quite factual. Usually it seems, we get things like this one...
View ArticleOh Noes! Wall Street Might Not Get Their Bonuses!
So I was doing my standard web surfing this AM after I had checked the (non-existent) jobs listings when I saw this from Bloomberg with the title, “Half of Wall Street Employees Expect Bigger Bonuses”:...
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This is the “new normal”
Photo: Doug Geisler / Flickr The ADP Report on private sector jobs came out today and showed an increase of 158K jobs. David Dayen at the FDL News Desk discusses this report and the Bureau of Labor...
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McJobs: Bad and Getting Worse
A couple of years ago, you might remember that McDonalds got a lot of publicity out of a one day hiring binge. I wrote about it here with a follow-up about the Washington Post noticing that it was a...
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August 2013 Jobs Report: “Good” News That Isn’t
Well the August Jobs Reports are in, and, as usual, the numbers were not as expected. From Reuters: Unemployment Report U.S. employers hired fewer workers than expected in August and the jobless rate...
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A 9/11 Takeaway: Media Consolidation in Action
Online News A couple of years ago, just before the 10 year mark after the 9/11 attack, I wrote this blog post, “A Personal Reflection on September 11, 2001.” If you haven’t read it, please go and do so...
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It’s Time to Stop Digging
Well, the Republican Congressional Arson Committee was out-voted Wednesday and the government shutdown has ended and the debt ceiling has been raised. At least for a few months. Now come the analyses...
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