From the BLS: The 30 occupations with the largest projected employment growth, 2010-20of the top ten, only teachers and nurses require a degree…and four don’t even require a high school diploma for entry…(hat tip reader rjs)
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any […]
Update: oooops. Slow computer the problem, and the manager probably meant the APPs. My bad…sorry Starbucks. While I don’t go to Starbuck’s, Ms, Rdan does on the way to work, and was told her card had $0 balance this morning. She had credited $40.00 last week… it is hard to get a $0 balance right […]
by Dale CoberlySOCIAL SECURITY and Uncle Sam moving parts edition Most of us have heard the “phony iou” claim about the Social Security Trust Fund, with its accompanying cartoon of a hapless Uncle Sam furiously borrowing from his left pocket to fill up his right pocket, and stuffing “worthless iou’s” into the left pocket to […]
by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt Health Care Thoughts: CPA Retirement Funding Act So I spent a part of the weekend reading summaries of the new IRS regs on the Obamacare 3.8% net investment income tax. Holy complications Batman! These rules are so complex and convoluted CPAs will spend their spare time reading yacht catalogs. Sure, […]
Two articles in The New York Times today got me thinking about the tragedy of the commons. This is not new thinking, but it’s not widespread enough, in my opinion. And, I hope this expresses it in a somewhat new way. One of the articles talks about the ongoing failure of pharmaceutical companies to develop […]
Louise Story’s series in the New York Times this week has created a substantial buzz about the issue of economic development subsidies.This is a welcome development, because it’s an issue that doesn’t get nearly enough attention in the highest profile media. Story has, in addition, appeared on shows such as MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and NPR’s […]
by Mike Kimel Many types of tech – not just robots – have been affecting and are going to affect the service sector. When someone develops an inexpensive sign you can stick on top of television sets, racks of clothes, or appliances that will change itself whenever someone in the headquarters decides to change the price of the product, […]
In the past discussions at Angry Bear on the impacts automation might have on our lives, and the economics involved, gathered comments such as “You are a neo luddite”. As if widespread use of automated systems was automatically good for us overall because we would have access to ‘more higher wage and higher skilled […]
The case is Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals et al, No. 12-416. Via the New York Times comes this note: Last year, for the third time since 2003, the 11th Circuit upheld the agreements as long as the allegedly anticompetitive behavior that results — in this case, keeping the generic drug off the market […]