The other day, I had a job interview. Oh, keep your hose on; it was for a possible side gig doing guest lectures or some such at a journalism school in the area.
Speaking of hose, I can’t remember when I last wore a pair. Do they still exist? I hear women raving about something called Spanx, but those seem to involve elastic and shallow …
Here’s a guest post from Michael Elliott, editor of Time International:
It was cold and clear on the way up from Zurich to Davos last night, the sort of weather that makes you hope that the next day will see brilliant sunshine, you’ll head to the Jakobshorn for a quick half-day on the slopes, and all will be well with the world.
All is …
The answer, of course, is no. But that’s what seems to happen at some companies.
Here at Time Inc., we take our Martin Luther King Jr. Day seriously. Even though we’re a weekly magazine that closes on Wednesdays, we at TIME Magazine got the day off. The better to respect the great man who was TIME’s Man of the Year back in 1964 (and …
Mrs. CC and I are headed off to Switzerland tonight for a week of winter sports and debauchery high-minded panel discussions in the mountain resort of Davos. I will be posting regularly and even, heaven forfend, vlogging.
But before I go, I’ll leave you with these encouraging words from Arthur Jensen, the big-media CEO (played by Ned …
The Economic Cycle Research Institute, a forecasting firm in New York, did a better job of calling the start of the last recession than just about anybody else, so I checked in last week with ECRI managing director Lakshman Achuthan to see where he thought things stood. He still doesn’t think we’re quite in a recession, but says we’re …
My list of the 10 reasons why 2008 is different from 1971 caught the attention of A-list econoblogger Tyler Cowen (wow, writing lists really is a surefire ticket to blogging fame and fortune). Writes Cowen:
This is funny … but of course it misses the point. One big difference is that we use energy much more efficiently than we used to.
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I have a column in the magazine with “The Science of Romance” on the cover (in the U.S., overseas it’s Ny lon kong–which, somewhat disappointedly, is not the amazing tale of a giant pantyhosed gorilla) and online here. The column begins:
Every day it’s looking more like a recession in the U.S. The December economic numbers (released in
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President Bush mentioned (outlined is really too strong a word) his 1% solution for the economic slowdown this morning. That is, a temporary stimulus that equals about 1% of GDP. That is, $140 billion.
This comes after Ben Bernanke declared Thursday that he favored temporary fiscal stimulus of about that size, and made pretty clear that …
The commenter formerly known as p_lukasiak (now charmingly rechristened mediasux), asks an excellent question:
Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but the whole purpose of the Fed was to act as a brake on the economy when inflation rears its ugly head. And while I was initially supportive of a stimulus package, the problems with the economy
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My friend Melissa Kong, a senior at Hamilton College and a former intern at Time Inc., penned this review.
When in Doubt, Wear Basic Black
Basic Black: The Essential Guide to Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life), by Cathie Black
Review by Melissa Kong
If you are a magazine aficionado, a college grad just starting out in the workplace, …
The long-running saga of Danish taxes and skilled workers has taken a dramatic new twist, with the broadcast on Danish TV Wednesday night of an episode of the financial news show Magasinet Penge titled Kold dansk skulder til udenlandsk arbejdskraft, which means just what you think it means (if you think it means “Cold Danish shoulder to …
I’m big on adjusting for inflation when measuring the purported positive revenue impact of tax cuts (which makes most of that purported positive impact disappear). But in his blog today, Paul Krugman (who’s, like, good at math and stuff) does me one better and adjusts for population growth:
[F]ederal revenues rose 80 percent in dollar
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