Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Best Times for the 1 Percent Since 1920s
September 11th, 2013Via: AP: The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it’s been since the Roaring ’20s. The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country’s household income last year — their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And the top […]
Recovery: Poverty in N.J. Reaches 52-Year High
September 8th, 2013Via: Star Ledger: Poverty in New Jersey continued to grow even as the national recession lifted, reaching a 52-year high in 2011, according to a report released today. The annual survey by Legal Services of New Jersey found 24.7 percent of the state’s population — 2.1 million residents — was considered poor in 2011. That’s […]
Recovery: Americans Are Participating in the Workforce at the Lowest Level in 35 Years
September 7th, 2013Via: Washington Post: Americans are participating in the workforce at the lowest level in 35 years, according to government data released Friday, as lackluster job growth fails to offset the droves of people who have given up looking for work. According to the Labor Department, the economy added a disappointing 169,000 jobs in August. In […]
16 Major Firms May Have Received Early Data From Thomson Reuters
September 6th, 2013Via: Rolling Stone: Readers may recall an ugly story that broke earlier this summer, when New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman rebuked the news/business information firm Thomson Reuters for selling access to key economic survey data two seconds early to high-frequency algorithmic traders. The story strongly suggested that some Thomson Reuters customers were using […]
USDA: Rural Population Needed Not For Farming But For Cannon Fodder
September 5th, 2013Update: Quote from Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed Joel Salatin’s telling of the story below sounded somehow familiar to me. I just remembered why. I’d read the following in, Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed way back in the 1990s: Terry was the quintessential product of Middle America. […]
PayPal Freezes MailPile’s Account, Access to Funds
September 5th, 2013Update: PayPal Releases Funds That move was just too ridiculous, even for PayPal. Via: MailPile: [Update: PayPal have unfrozen the account, for now at least. Thank you for your support!] — Via: Mailpile: The bad news is, PayPal have frozen our PayPal account. This means roughly $45,000 of the $135,000 we have raised so far […]
Amazon Hiring 100 IT Personnel for Positions Requiring Top Secret Security Clearances
September 5th, 2013Via: ComputerWorld: Amazon has more than 100 job openings for people who can get a top secret clearance, which includes a U.S. government administered polygraph examination. It needs software developers, operations managers and cloud support engineers, among others. Amazon’s hiring effort includes an invitation-only recruiting event for systems support engineers at its Herndon, Va., facility […]
Oregon State University: Research Create Diodes That Use Quantum Mechanical Tunneling
September 5th, 2013Via: OSU: Researchers in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University have made a significant advance in the function of metal-insulator-metal, or MIM diodes, a technology premised on the assumption that the speed of electrons moving through silicon is simply too slow. For the extraordinary speed envisioned in some future electronics applications, these innovative […]
‘School Is a Prison’
September 4th, 2013I hope that everyone who sees this post clicks through and reads the whole piece. Also, here’s the book: Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray Via: Salon: Parents send their children to school with the best of […]
Can’t Get Enough of China’s Ghost Cities
September 4th, 2013Macro scale madness. Via: io9: China’s building boom has created a ton of abandoned cities and massive ruins — most of which are brand new, and have never had people living in them. Here are the deserted Chinese cities, mostly built in the last 10 years, which could be sets for your next dystopian movie.
