. . . so he’ll probably want to make it mandatory. Mike Bloomberg: Skip college, become a plumber New York City’s billionaire mayor tells students that most of them should avoid a costly degree and instead learn a well-paying trade. By Aimee Picchi | MSN Money Mike Bloomberg, the outspoken mayor of New York City [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Labor category.
Why is job creation so slow?
Here’s one reason; from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Eateries Fear Health Law’s Bite Franchisees Try to Stay Below Insurance Threshold; White Castle Slows Its Expansion By JULIE JARGON Some restaurant operators are scaling back expansion plans because of uncertainty about the expense of insuring employees under the new federal health-care law. The concerns are especially [...]
Economics 101: Trying to guess the unemployment number Updated! 7.5%
First came the report from ADP, with a hat tip to Patterico: ADP reports 119K private job gains in April By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY3:13 p.m. EDT May 1, 2013 Businesses added 119,000 jobs in March, payroll processor ADP said Wednesday, below economists’ expectations. Job growth picked up from the prior month but remained mired [...]
Economics 101: Hostess arises from the ashes, and goes non-union
At THE FIRST STREET JOURNAL, we paid some attention to the demise of Hostess Brands. Now comes this, from Sister Toldjah: New maker of Twinkies: Non-union workers will be used to restart plants Posted by: ST on April 24, 2013 at 7:03 pm Let the OUTRAGE!!!!!!! begin: The company that bought the Twinkie, HoHo and [...]
The prognostications of economists
THE FIRST STREET JOURNAL is as much an economics blog as a political one, and your Editor pays a lot more attention to economics than a lot of other political bloggers. From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Job Market Remains U.S. Economy’s Wild Card By BEN CASSELMAN As the U.S. economy picks up steam, the job [...]
From around the blogroll
Well, of course this would never have happened before the election! From Robert Stacey Stacy McCain: A Scandal Too Far: Steve Capus Terminated as NBC News President Posted on February 2, 2013 The New York Times spins it this way: The longest-serving president of any of the three network news divisions, Steve Capus of NBC News, [...]
Economics 101: It’s not a nail
It has been said before that when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: No Surprise as Fed Keeps Rate Stance By Jon Hilsenrath and Victoria McGrane | Updated January 30, 2013, 7:09 p.m. ET The Federal Reserve is keeping its foot pressed [...]
Economics 101: The Democrats’ economic and taxation policies at work in Illinois
Remember how our friends on the left were so appalled that the Michigan state legislature passed a right-to-work law? How about in just-across-the-lake Illinois, that liberal bastion and home of President Barack Hussein Obama? Unions blast state on plans for underfunded pensions By Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune | 1:26 p.m. CST, December 19, 2012 A [...]
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From Cassy Fiano Chesser of Victory Girls: Feminists Throw Hissy Fit Over Victoria’s Secret Rape Panties by CASSY on DECEMBER 14, 2012 Feminists love to describe our culture in completely random, nonsensical ways. From a culture of “oppression” to an imaginary war on women, they keep finding all kinds of ways to make sure that women know how [...]
Three brief articles from Karen
Karen, the Lonely Conservative, had three brief articles which I see are closely related. In the newest, she noted that Jeffrey Immelt, General Electric CEO and chairman of President Obama’s jobs council, said of the People’s republic of China: The one thing that actually works, state run communism a bit — may not be your [...]
