Archive for October, 2009
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Why Is It Called Recovery With 20% Unemployment?
I kept hearing that the “recovery” was underway but real unemployment seems to be at 20% so why do I keep hearing the term recovery? I get my real employment numbers from Shadowstats who use the traditional method of tracking unemployment (see chart below). So I ask again, why are we calling it a recovery? [...]
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
My Frugal Brown Baggin’ It Days Are Over
Well it was a great experiment and it lasted for a short while but I’m pretty much down brown baggin’ it for lunch. Up until now, I have been making my lunch at home and putting it in a lunch pack and eating it at work during lunch but I can’t do it anymore for [...]
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
The Ex-Vice-Presidents Club
It’s kinda like the Ex-wives club except it’s for professionals. Last week, I had dinner with a few former co-workers from almost a decade ago. At the time, many of these guys were managers or directors for the company we worked for and at that particular time, I was a Vice President for the organization [...]