by admin | Dec 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Morale hazard is loosely defined as the presence of an outside item or system that affects typical behavior. I like to use an example of an SUV-type vehicle. Because of added safety features and the enormity of the vehicle, drivers report feeling safer and...
by admin | Nov 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
In an essay, entitled “Making It in America.” in the latest issue of The Atlantic, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a...
by admin | Nov 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Freedom of speech might allow journalists to get away with a lot in America, but the Department of Homeland Security is on the ready to make sure that the government is keeping dibs on who is saying what. Under the National Operation Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring...
by admin | Nov 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
In 1957, University of Michigan psychology professors Joseph Veroff, Elizabeth Douvan, and Richard Kulka released a survey that examined American attitudes to being single. The findings were stark: 80% of those surveyed believed that people who preferred being...
by admin | Nov 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
China is fighting for its right to pollute. The government has banned Chinese airlines from paying a pointless new European emission tax. The argument isn’t really about the environment. It’s about China’s “don’t intervene” foreign policy, which also led it to veto a...
by admin | Nov 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Small-business owners felt the burn of the downturn but they’re about to get a boost from Washington. President Obama on Sept. 27th signed a Small Business Jobs Act, which aims to provide capital, tax cuts and opportunities to small-business owners. Beginning in...
by admin | Nov 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
Banks reported the greatest increase in demand for loans from small companies since 2005, according to the Federal Reserve’s survey of senior loans officers out today. That may be good news for a job growth later in the year. From Bloomberg News: “While business...
by admin | Nov 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
It’s no secret that the years since the financial crisis have been tough on small business. What’s more surprising, though, is that their role in the U.S. economy had already been diminishing for years before the Great Recession. Small companies’ contribution to...
by admin | Nov 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Steve Case (center) kicked off the Startup America Partnership at the White House Last January. Steve Case and Scott Case dropped by the Bloomberg offices in New York yesterday afternoon to talk up their Startup America Partnership as it nears its one-year...
by admin | Nov 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Men may not stop to ask for directions when lost, but they will ask for help when it comes to finding a job. According to a survey of more than 2,000 job seekers conducted by Dr. Woody/TweetMyJOBS, men are significantly more likely than women to reach out to...
