“In July, the number of unemployed persons was 14.5 million,” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Another quarter million jobs were lost; however, as Chart 2 indicates below, the month-to-month decline is about half the job loss rate six months ago.
The bad news in the BLS report for July is on page 2:
The number [...]
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On grainy TVs in the summer of 1968, ABC Sports trumpeted something dramatic: a high jumper competing for the gold by leaping over the bar… backwards! Americans ran to their living rooms to gape each time Dick Fosbury made an attempt.
Serial entrepreneur and professor John Greathouse probes the origins of Fosbury’s innovation:
[Fosbury] began experimenting with [...]
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Insolvency lawyers discuss how this recession is different:
Aubrey Kauffman of Fasken Martineau Dumoulin in Toronto observes that “the key departure from previous downturns is that potential purchasers don’t have access to financing to buy businesses in distress — even if these businesses are fundamentally sound.” [...]
“Other downturns have been more focused,” Mr. Kauffman says. “We’ve [...]
Grasshopper.com promotes their with a nifty video titled “Entrepreneurs can change the world.” Kind of clever — I watched it several times!
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Thanks to the InfoChachkie blog for introducing this 3-minute video:
High-tech marketing guru Richard St. John…invested the necessary time to ensure that his 2006 talk at the TED Conference was succinct and highly impactful. Over a seven-year period, he interviewed over 500 very successful people in order to answer this question posed to him by a [...]
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