Here’s an interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal today: apparently,
The ailing economy is helping to ease the nursing shortage.
Why? Simple:
With house prices falling and the cost of gasoline and food rising, many nurses are going back to work, in some cases to make up for the income of a spouse who has lost a job. Hospitals say
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Fresh off his rousing defense of the McCain-Clinton gas tax pander (it’s better than price controls), my future co-author Bryan Caplan now makes a more general case for why his fellow objectivists/anarchists should consider voting for Hillary Clinton:
In terms of policy, Hillary and Obama look extremely similar to me; I prefer either to
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Look. I’m Japanese. This statement I’ve just made is liable to lose me my citizenship. Business cards, or meishi, as they’re called back home, are a vital tool in the business world there. There’s a whole etiquette to how you hand them out (with both hands), who gets whose first (the most senior guys, of course), how you receive them …
Another finding in the Jobfox survey below:
…the professions in highest demand among employers found that some median salary ranges being asked for by job seekers dipped $10,000, compared to a month ago. Median salary ranges demanded by job seekers fell for workers seeking jobs in:
Software Design/Development, with a median salary
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…sales. Or accounting. Or software design. So say the just-released results of a nationwide survey by Jobfox that identifies the jobs “in greatest demand by recruiters and other employer agents who use Jobfox to search for and find new or replacement workers.” The survey reflects the latest in job trends, as the results were culled …
Yes, it’s true, I do have a magazine story to write, but first I must share this video of CNBC’s Becky Quick interviewing Warren Buffett. This is like day 226 of CNBC’s Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting blitz coverage. I tried to keep up, really I did.
Becky starts off by saying that after more than five hours of questions from …
Yeah, yeah, I know: Microsoft backs off and Yahoo’s stock implodes! Countrywide turns out to be maybe not worth anything! The Fed says lending standards are tightening a lot! Some guy named Paul Collier writes a really smart blog comment!
So much fun news to blog about. But I’ve got a magazine story to write. So does Kiviat, for that …
…someone famous! With kids!
Just got a “VIP media invite” (because, you know, I’m all that) to the National Mother’s Day Council’s 30th Annual Outstanding Mother awards reception on May 8. I’m sorry to tell you that you didn’t win. I don’t think you were even considered, …
Over the past few years, my employer has imposed a few rounds of layoffs. During the run-up, we were encouraged to visit with our human resources department if we wanted to inquire about taking a package. We were assured absolute, air-tight, witness-protection-program secrecy if we chose to do so. Who needs our bosses knowing we’re …
The Congressional Budget Office issued a report Friday on Sources of the Growth and Decline in Individual Income Tax Revenues Since 1994. The gist of it was that the big gains in federal tax revenue from 1994-2000 had very little to do with changes in the tax code, while about half of the decline in tax revenue (as a share of GDP) …
My colleague Vanessa Kaneshiro just produced this terrific interview that our boss, Rick Stengel, conducted with Maria Shriver. It’s part of our 10 Questions series; we compile questions for notable people on Time.com, conduct the interview before an audience and then print the answers in the magazine. Who told you TIME was old school? …
8:42 a.m. (all times Central): It’s begun! They’re playing the movie. Starts out with a musical montage with scenes from Berkshire subsidiaries. Makes me wonder if “It’s a Beautiful Day” is, in fact, the most-played song at annual meetings. Then goes to a cartoon in which Warren and Bill Gates (Berkshire director and Buffett bridge …
