Friday, June 7, 2013

Quick Snapshot of today's employment report. 175,000 net new jobs created. But are they "good jobs"? See the evidence here...

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In May the BLS reports the number of new jobs created (net) was 175,000 (first yellow highlight). Of those 175,000 jobs the big gainers...
Thursday, June 6, 2013

New revision to the number of jobs needed to maintain a steady unemployment rate. The change is dramatic and of consequence!

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When the monthly employment report is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics ( BLS ) it reports the number of new jobs created and lost...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Did Disney raise its admission prices just to keep up with inflation? (Also a link to historical prices to the "Happiest Place on Earth")

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This is an extension of a Disney post on the recent price increase. Here is that one. Below is a single day ticket for entry into Disney W...

Nice interactive showing various occupations and median income earned in those occupations...Know before you go (for it)...

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Kinda cool.  It shows various occupations, the number of people in those occupations and the "median" income earned in those occup...

Disney has just (this week) increased the admission price to its theme parks. Here is the rest of the story not reported by the media (yet).

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For Disney Fans this is important.  Admission prices to DisneyLand and DisneyWorld have just increased AND they have disaggregated a ONE-DAY...

Wall Street is saving the housing market and the economy!! Reminds me of the arsonist who sets the fire then puts it out. I GUESS we are thankful. Read here why...

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NYTIMES If you are interested in "going deep" with your knowledge of various underlying fundamentals contributing to our econo...
Saturday, June 1, 2013

The use of credit gives us a sugar high. The following funk is the debt we pay for that high. How come we understand that with our physical health, but not our financial health?

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My cyber friend over at The New Arthurian Economics has a blog posting that is deceptively short and may seem obvious, but I don't thi...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Why there is a future for manufacturing but not manufacturing jobs. Nice video of a BMW factory makes the point for us all.

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If you need a simple illustration as to why there is a future for manufacturing, but not a future for manufacturing jobs (to assemble mainly...

1 Billion fewer people living in Extreme Poverty in the world just since 2000. Who (or what) is responsible for this miracle? Nice graphic here.

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Here is a graph from The Economist showing the dramatic decline in the number of people in the world living on $1.25 per day (or less).  Th...

The High School Yearbook industry is being challenged. I say "AMEN TO THAT". Bet you do too. See here why...

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  Creative Destruction is a term credited to economist Joseph Schumpter that describes the process by which market activity evolves to ch...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Interested in a FREE crash course in the Basics of Supply and Demand??

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NOTE: Due to an OVERWHELMING response for this class, I have had to cut off enrollment. However, I WILL offer the class again the Week of ...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Infographic showing Return on Investment per Corporate lobbying dollar spent. Crony-Capitialism at its finest. Get ready to be angry!

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Does lobbying our elected officials pay-off?  I think so, based on these numbers.  Shows what the return to various industries is on the inv...

E-waste, recycling and "good intentions". What happens when you hurt the people you are supposedly trying to help?

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When viewpoints based on prior information (faulty or not) have been rendered obsolete why are we slow to change those views? Is it beca...
Sunday, May 26, 2013

Soft drinks and Federal Food Assistance ("Food Stamps"). See here why Coca Cola is so interested in this relationship...

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Just doing some reading and came across an article on Coca-Cola's lobbying effort to make sure soft drinks are not excluded from purch...
Friday, May 24, 2013

"Eat Mor Chicken" is the market response to "Where's the Beef?"---Nice graphic showing what is happening in the meat market...

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A nice teaching moment courtesy of The Wall Street Journal . The graphic below illustrates how the increase in the price of beef at the whol...
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