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Laid off? Try a culinary career
Written on 5 Mar, 2010 at 18:24 in Business | viewed 35 views times | 0 Comments
Starting a new career path can be a pragmatic and positive response to a layoff, and when you decide to try something new, it is a good idea to analyze the projected viability of that new direction. Difficult economic times... (Continue reading)
If you don’t like your job…
Written on 23 Feb, 2010 at 15:04 in Business | viewed 43 views times | 0 Comments
Of course we all need income to survive and hopefully prosper, but today we would like to suggest that it may not be best to consistently make decisions based on what appears to be best, or necessary, from a purely... (Continue reading)
Woods meets the press
Written on 23 Feb, 2010 at 14:46 in Business | viewed 35 views times | 0 Comments
America has become a land that is intoxicated by celebrity, and as a pundit I must say that I detest this aspect of the psyche of my country. There was a time when the folks who people looked up to... (Continue reading)
Learning business through poker
Written on 23 Feb, 2010 at 14:37 in Business | viewed 31 views times | 0 Comments
When you decide that you would like to become a more effective business person, you may think that you need to go back to school to get an MBA or some other advanced degree, or perhaps take a couple of... (Continue reading)
Americans should take care of our own
Written on 17 Feb, 2010 at 16:12 in Business | viewed 102 views times | 0 Comments
Most of us are in touch with what is called a conscience, an innate ability to recognize right from wrong. Unfortunately, when it comes to money and business, many people leave that conscience at the door, and these days we... (Continue reading)
Why trust big business
Written on 17 Feb, 2010 at 16:00 in Business | viewed 25 views times | 0 Comments
Due to fixation that the American public has on television, businesses are for the most part not considered legitimate or trustworthy if you have not “heard of them” via the boob tube. This is the primary way that brands enter... (Continue reading)
Stocks pull out of slump but end week lower
A battered stock market recovered from a sharp drop in late trading Friday but still posted its fourth straight weekly drop. The Dow Jones industrials, down nearly 170 points in afternoon trading, clawed their way back to finish with a... (Continue reading)
Goldman CEO Blankfein gets $9M stock bonus for 09
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein is getting a $9 million stock bonus for 2009, a modest payday by Wall Street standards that appears aimed at quelling criticism of the bank’s compensation practices. Blankfein will receive more than 58,000... (Continue reading)
Drop in jobless rate points to modest improvement
The job market is lurching toward improvement. It just has a long way to go. The outlook for jobs became a bit less bleak Friday when the government released January’s unemployment rate showing an unexpected decline from 10 percent to... (Continue reading)
What a 9.7 percent unemployment rate means
Despite economists’ expectations that the unemployment rate would climb well into the economic recovery, the percentage of unemployed, job-seeking Americans fell 0.3 percentage point in January to 9.7 percent, its lowest point since August. The unemployment rate is calculated through... (Continue reading)
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