What is the Total Economic Impact of FSCJ?
A cool $1.6 billion annually, according to a study for the Florida College System Council of Presidents.
Tag Archive: economy
How Hopeless is our Love Affair with Real Estate?
Even with dropping home prices, decreasing incomes and high unemployment we’re looking at a real estate bubble that won’t fully burst.
Is Confirmation Bias Clouding Our Judgment?
Why is it that conservatives tend to watch fox news and those with more liberal leanings tend to watch MSNBC? Psychologists would tell us it’s because of what they call “confirmation bias.” Confirmation bias is the tendency of humans to…
Read more
A letter to the One Percent
The Ninety-Nine Percent have watched helplessly as you’ve shipped our jobs overseas and debased our currency to enrich your pockets.
Wall Street Volatility is Going to the Streets
We are learning how to kick our problems into next week, month or year, which brings fear one week and greed the next and that creates a highly volatile market.
Beware of Geeks Bearing Formulas
Despite the occasional headline-grabbing failure of computerized high-frequency trading, it still accounts for roughly 50 percent of all trading volume.
Four Letter Words Give Unsettling Economic Signals
As daily media contradictions about the economy recovering versus taking a path to double dipping persist, Americans are unsettled and Investors have become very wary. Volatility will be a long drawn out sentiment.
Just an Oasis in the Financial Desert?
Investors and broad financial markets going up-up-and-away after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that it is time for fiscal policy, not monetary stimulus.
Hurricane Irene to the Rescue of the Economy?
Praying for a hurricane to hit is a new twist in the fight to turn the economy around. But hoping for an alien invasion..? Really?
The Need to be Self Educated
The truffle hound — an animal so bred and trained for one narrow purpose that he wasn’t much good at anything else, and that is the reward system in a lot of academic departments – Charlie Munger
New American Businesses Aiming at Instant Gratification
With the economy hinting at a recovery, new business owners should learn that first priority is marketing, before they run out of money and/or patience.
Halting Further Capital Destruction in Real Estate
As experts keep warning for both inflation and deflation scenarios, it becomes clear that 1950 economic tools have no answers for 2010 problems.
We Are Learning to Downsize
I see folks downsizing; homes are no longer the huge castles of the past twenty years but rather smaller and more sensible homes.
The Lies that Hide in Statistics
Whether it’s ignorance or intentional deceit, the market commentators today are dangerous to your prosperity and well being.
Indiana to Cut Unemployment Benefits by Half
Indiana owes $1.9 billion in state unemployment to the federal government and are cutting unemployment benefits by up to fifty percent.