Check this out- after unprecedented cost cutting measures by corporations over the past 12-14 months, wages are growing again! Or are they?
This is according to a recent NYT article. I myself was a victim of just about all the cost cutting measures (except being laid off) last year: My raise was postponed indefinitely, [...]
1. Business sentiment is up!
When business sentiment is up, employers hire. When people get jobs, they have more income and buy more stuff. It’s that simple. Watch for the Institute for supply management’s (ISM) latest Non-Manufacturing ROB report
You want to see an index of 50 or more, that stays for a couple [...]
Much has been written in recent years (especially election years) about corporations sending jobs overseas. China and India (A.K.A. “Chindia”) are usually the prime benefactors of outsourcing, and also the prime targets of scorn often drawn from the feelings by many that these jobs are “taken” from American workers. Yet, according to Business Week, [...]
Ah spring is in the air. Or, to quote Tom Lehrer (From An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer … a fantastic album if you like zany musical satire..):
“Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here. Life is skittles and life is beer. I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring. I do, [...]
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