Annoying fact:
Female managers who are seen as unkind, insensitive and unaware of others’ feelings are judged as worse bosses because of it – yet men who exhibit the same qualities aren’t.
That’s what Kristin Byron, assistant professor of management in the Whitman School of Management at …
The very thought of hooking up with someone I work with makes me a little vomitous. Come to think of it, the very thought of the baked beans in the cafeteria yesterday makes me a little vomitous. Maybe it’s residual motion sickness from my 16-hour flight Sunday.
Anyway, that’s just me. According to Stephanie Losee and Helaine Olen, …
In a speech today, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson let slip a few more details about the plan to freeze rates on some adjustable rate mortgages so a few hundred thousand hardworking Americans who took out really crazy loans can hold on to their homes.
While the reality is a bit more complex, in the interest of simplicity, there are four
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So we had an emergency action drill today. A fire marshall with a thick New York accent and an even thicker white moustache gathered us by our respectively designated exits and handed out instruction sheets. At the top of the sheet were the various emergencies we were preparing for:
• chemical release
• blackout
• natural …
There’s an uplifting story in the health section of the New York Times today. Tara Parker-Pope reports:
Researchers have long known that work stress can take a heavy toll on health. Studies have shown that stress at work increases the risk for depression, heart attack and other health worries. But now a new report shows that the
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In a thrilling development, the Curious Capitalist residence has been selected to be one of the 2.5% of American dwellings receiving an American Community Survey from the Census Bureau this year. It looks like serious work; the estimated completion time is 38 minutes. We haven’t filled out any of the hard stuff yet. Mrs. CC doesn’t …
When my article “Why Denmark Loves Globalization” was published in Time a couple of weeks ago, I said I might post the longer draft that I had tried vainly to get published in Time‘s Europe edition. Well, here it is. And it’s definitely longer:
Last year, Danish toymaker Lego announced plans to outsource most of its manufacturing to …
My newest dead-tree effort is in the issue with Barack Obama on the cover and online here. It begins:
It’s the day after Thanksgiving at Aventura Mall, north of Miami, and David Weinberg is worrying about the economy. “People are underestimating the downturn in the housing market in Florida and are spending based on home equity,” says
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In response to popular demand (well, one commenter asked for it), I’ve put together what I promise will be my last multi-colored Case-Shiller housing price chart for a while, this time with the price indices adjusted for inflation:
This chart gives me the opportunity to explore something that Curious Capitalist reader Richard “Creative …
Thus writeth Willem “Maverecon” Buiter of the London School of Economics and FT.com:
From the point of view of the efficient allocation of resources in the medium and long term, the relative (probably even absolute in the short run) contraction in the size of the financial sectors of the advanced industrial countries is a desirable
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Here, as promised, is what the chart looks like for the 14 metropolitan areas for which the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices go all the way back to 1987 (that is, before the last real estate bust, which sure doesn’t look all that dramatic on the chart, except maybe in LA):
A couple of comments: First, keep in mind that this chart …
My friend Jeff Gordinier has a totally brilliant Q&A with John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) up on Conde Nast’s men.style.com. (I presume there’s a shorter version in the new Details magazine, but Peter Carlson of the Washington Post says reading that will make you stinky). Anyway, it took me a while to find a …
