“Mommy,” said my daughter as she inspected my bare feet the other day. “Why are your feet cracked?”
They’re more than cracked. The appendages at the bottoms of my legs are—how to put it delicately?—hideous. My toes are spidery. My pinkies are misshapen from a misguided youth spent jamming them into stupid stilts. Currently my …
These past two weeks, I’ve been saving a boatload of money. How? I’m working from home. True, the primary reason is to better accommodate my acute hugeness of gut as I hover like a freak-show bumblebee near my due date. But my telecommuting stint coincides very nicely with the startling spike in gas prices.
I speculated in an earlier …
I have a column in the issue of Time with a fire alarm on the cover, and online here. It begins:
The giant ships from Asia steam into the Southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach laden with flat-screen TVs, flip-flops, copying machines, nail clippers, Thomas the Tank Engines and all the other necessities of modern life.
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We all know the U.S. is running a big trade deficit. Has been for years. We also know that the U.S. imports a lot of oil, the price of which has been going up staggeringly fast lately. But how much of a factor is oil in the trade deficit?
A really big factor, it turns out. Oil imports now account for most of the U.S. trade deficit, …
Tysons Corner, located just outside the Beltway in Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County, is the largest commercial district in Virginia and the 15th largest in the nation. It is one of the great American economic success stories of the postwar era, and is typical of the “Edge Cities” (or “technoburbs,” or–to be entirely prosaic about …
Here are a bunch, from OfficeTeam‘s survey of 150 senior executives at the 1,000 largest U.S. companies and 100 senior executives in Canada:
* “The candidate sent his sister to interview in his place.”
* “The person was dancing during the interview. He kept saying things like, ‘I love life!’ and ‘Oh yeah!’”
* “A job
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A colleague writes:
I’m wondering if the landscape is changing regarding new graduates seeking jobs. Was talking with a friend from college who does a lot of interviewing, runs her own ad agency, and recently she’s been asked by kids to show them HER Facebook and job website, a complete reversal. It was as if they were interviewing
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The Corporate Library released early results of its annual CEO pay survey this morning. The takeaway: CEOs of big companies get richer. CEOs of less-big companies don’t even keep up with inflation.
Consider:
For the 380 CEOs who were in post for the whole of 2006 and 2007, the median increase in total actual compensation has fallen to
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I’ve been spending some time perusing the Census Bureau’s foreign trade statistics. You can learn some remarkable things there. Such as that the U.S. is running dizzying surpluses in spacecraft ($150 million in exports to just about nothing in imports in the first three months of this year) and hides and skins ($426 million to $13 …
Back in March I blogged about the interesting and “mildly disturbing” tendency of Federal Reserve governors to bail out long before their terms expire. Now Fed governor Frederic Mishkin has announced that he’ll be returning to his teaching job at Columbia after just under two years of making monetary policy. That’s not quite a record: …
I don’t know. The idea behind a list like this puzzles me. Isn’t the point of telecommuting that you could do it from anywhere? Why would Silver Spring, Md., be a better telecommuting hub than Naples, Fla.? Maybe it’s a little more pleasant to hang with a laptop on the beaches of Malibu, but if your cozy home office is located in a split …
From Blaine Harden in today’s Washington Post:
Jerome White Jr. wears a do-rag while crooning syrupy ballads — in perfect Japanese — about lost love.
Part Public Enemy, part Sinatra, part schmaltz, it’s an act the Japanese public has never seen before, and it is making him a star.
Jero, as he is marketed here, has a hugely successful
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