Visualizing changing cost of living vs education

If You Graduated After 1976, You Are Getting Screwed By The Economy BY STAN ALCORN, fastcoexist.com This infographic shows the hard truth for anyone in their late 30s or younger: Everything has been more difficult for you, and it’s just getting worse. The 1970s have strange­ly become, in ret­ro­spect, a gold­en era, at least for … Continue reading Visualizing changing cost of living vs education

Gen Y professionals give up cubicles for personal control

American Dream Fades for Generation Y Professionals By Elliot Blair Smith -, bloomberg.com After being dis­missed from her job as a Mid­town Man­hat­tan secu­ri­ties attor­ney in Octo­ber 2009, Christi­na Tretter-Herriger hitched a used horse trail­er to her Dodge Ram pick­up and drove 1,628 miles to Texas. The 32-year-old lawyer sold… RT @BloombergNews: For young Generation … Continue reading Gen Y professionals give up cubicles for personal control

Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It – NYTimes.com

Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It - NYTimes.com Related articles With Positions to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection - NYTimes.com (jlphilly47.wordpress.com) Tax Lobby Builds Ties To Max Baucus - NYTimes.com (huffingtonpost.com) Stupid Writer Tricks - NYTimes.com (everythingscrivener.wordpress.com)

Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy

Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy By Tom Teodorczuk, fastcompany.com What does an archaeologist-slash-action hero out to save the world from maniacal Nazis have to do with battling boring corporate bureaucracy? Everything. Wall Street. Glen­gar­ry Glen Ross. The Man in the Gray Flan­nel Suit.… http://flpbd.it/9rGZB Related articles Charlie Ergen on Dish's … Continue reading Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy

Public Citizen website provides news, articles

Public Citizen Home Page. Related articles Public Citizen supports Notice of Claim (timesunion.com) Public Citizen seeks rehearing of "dangerous" employee speech case (pubcit.typepad.com) At Public Citizen, Jack Abramoff Calls for End of the Revolving Door (pogoblog.typepad.com) Public Citizen Applauds Obama Administration's Continued Efforts to Reduce Teen Smoking (gloucestercitynews.net)

The End of Rational Economics

The End of Rational Economics - HBR.org . According to the latest issue of HBR in 2008,  Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve once hailed as “the greatest banker who ever lived,” confessed to Congress that he was “shocked” that the markets did not operate according to his lifelong expectations. He … Continue reading The End of Rational Economics

Bloomberg – Business, Financial & Economic News, Stock Quotes

Bloomberg - Business, Financial & Economic News, Stock Quotes. We'll put it this way: Bloomberg.com is the go-to financial news service for the guys who manage your stock portfolio and the Wall Street bigwigs who manage their portfolios. Related articles The Rise of Bloomberg Online (247wallst.com) Consumer Comfort in U.S. Slumps to Lowest Level Since … Continue reading Bloomberg – Business, Financial & Economic News, Stock Quotes