It can make a person feel really old to find that a common word of his youth is now classified as archaic. That is what…
Category: Economics
I didn’t vote for Donald Trump for POTUS (or for Hillary Clinton), but I understand exactly why so many did and why he won the…
Measuring Unemployment
Posted in Jobs
Here are three simple true/false questions about employment in the USA. Unemployment is down 40% since February 2009 when President Obama entered office. A person…
Job Growth – New Low Predicted
Posted in Economics, Government, and Jobs
Both sides of the political fence like to pick and choose data points to prove either that the jobs recovery during the Obama administration is…
You Didn’t Create That Job!
Posted in Government, and Jobs
A NYT lead editorial, The Myth of Job Creation, published during the 2012 presidential campaigns, tried to make the case that both Governor Romney and President Obama erred…
Reflections on JFK and Changing Times (Updated from 11/23/2013)
Posted in Culture and Diversity, Economics, History, and Politics
I was a senior at Vanderbilt on November 22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy’s assassination. JFK had visited Nashville and spoken at Vanderbilt’s Dudley…
KRM’s (Key Result Measures) and Improvement Plan for the USA (Revised 5/15/2015 Post)
Posted in Economics, and Government
We are heavily entangled with, both supporting and depending on, two very large entities that we hope and pray are too large to fail. Unfortunately,…
(Based on an 8/21/2011 post – Edited and data updated to 2015 in this post) August 21, 2011, I wrote a post making some fun…
GDP, the total value of goods and services produced within the country in a given time interval and the key measure of national economic health,…