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English required
Welcome to the global community in 2012! English has increasingly become the international language of business. Within more and more nations, businesses are demanding their executives become fluent in English. […]
Braking for jobs?
March employment gains were less than expected, less than exciting, less than worth writing home about and will again pose the question of whether U.S. job creation is about to […]
First, the good news
The dismal science of economics typically focuses on bad news. We clearly face many significant challenges. However, there are also many favorable developments taking place within the U.S. economy. Here’s some good […]
Finishing this sentence
…those seeking the Presidency would discuss critical issues facing the American people, instead of so many side issues …European political leaders would finally and fully address the Continent’s sovereign debt […]
Slow growth beats no growth
The “good” news? The U.S. economy has now been in growth mode for 33 months, ever since the Great Recession ending in June 2009. The “bad” news? U.S. economic growth has averaged […]
The economic doomsayers
I do not think much of those economic forecasters whose only message is, and nearly always has been, that U.S. economic and global collapse is just around the corner. They […]
Renaissance manufacturing
The common wisdom is that we have lost our ability to “make things” in this country, lost it to China, Mexico and others. Our nation is now a place where […]
Jobs forecast: Sunnier skies
After three years of essentially lousy employment reports, the January 2012 report was simply better. Job growth exceeded expectations, it occurred in almost every employment classification, hours worked in various sectors […]
And now, for some good news
It’s nice for a change to be able to talk about an American economy that is, for the moment, getting stronger. After growing at a truly pathetic real (inflation adjusted) […]
The latest economic numbers:
The October employment report was kinda’ like kissin’ your sister: a little tingle here and there, but not all that exciting (actually I never had any sisters!) The report did […]
U.S. versus Japan
Economic and financial pain within the U.S. has been all too commonplace during the past few years. The S&P 500, a weighted stock market index of 500 large publicly held […]
As the nation goes, so goes Colorado
A more impressive U.S. economy should set the stage for stronger Colorado economic growth. A stronger U.S. economy over the balance of the year, following weak first-quarter 2011 performance, will […]
