Working Life

   This is a modest observation that comes from an optimist–my friends say delusional optimist–that an Obama landslide is coming. Here’s the question: if it happens, will too many Democratic-inclined voters stay home in the three Western states and cost Democrats some close, important races?     A few initial thoughts: The Obama campaign, if […]

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   I suppose I try to live by the credo that anyone can change. Everyone deserves another shot (okay, I don’t include Dick Cheney or Henry Kissinger in that category–mass murderers can’t be redeemed). But, I approach this news with a bit of skepticism: At a gathering of more than 1,000 suppliers, Chinese officials and […]

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   Let me start by wishing the Tampa Bay Rays good fortune and good luck–you gotta love youth and enthusiasm. That team is going to be a royal pain in the ass for the next few years.    In good news, some miscreants are getting a serious slap in the pocketbook: A federal judge has […]

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   I meant to post this yesterday but got all wrapped up in heading out for a work trip to make headway on my book…but how many of you saw the "60 Minutes" segment Sunday where Leslie Stahl interviews the hread of Bank of America, Ken Lewis? Here is the priceless question from Stahl, relating […]

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   We are going to see alot more of this in the next couple of years: More than 50 day laborers stood, bored, anxious and mostly silent, in the sun-blasted parking lot of a Home Depot here last week, tracking the ebb and flow of customers and hoping for work. The hours crawled by. Six, […]

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   For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been focusing a lot of observations about the financial mess–the Paulson bailout for bankers, the AIG bailout, the "The Audacity of Timidity: Where Is The Challenge to Market Fundamentalism"–but, to start off today, I wanted to turn us back to some real voices. And this comes courtesy […]

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   Last night’s debate, not surprisingly, didn’t finger the real culprit in the economic crisis hitting people everywhere–by the way, an economic crisis that is a far more ancient phenomena than the last few weeks. The real culprit is Market Fundamentalism.    And, so, I offer you this: "The Audacity of Timidity: Where Is The […]

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   As I said yesterday, the crazy-assed rise in the stock market on Monday was all about one-time profit-taking. And today look for things to begin to come down to earth because, as The Wall Street Journal reports just now on its website: U.S. retail sales took the sharpest drop in three years during September […]

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