Reflection on Economic Recovery: It’s Not About Jobs
Given the dismal employment numbers announced yesterday, and some in the media’s heavy tone in reporting them, it feels appropriate to reflect on the theme of economic recovery and jobs.
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Jobs: Can CEOs Lead?
Jobs. Depending on how you count, the challenge is 7 to 10 million net new jobs in the United States over the next 5 years or so from a current base of about 130 million. A five to seven percent increase, the sooner the better. Here’s how.
Martha’s Vineyard & Obama:Possible Dreams
It’s that time of year again when I vacation with the President and his family on Martha’s Vineyard. Well, we are not exactly together. But the 3 miles that separate us make it almost seem as if we were. The Big O, his lovely Michelle and the girls are just down the road apiece in Chilmark. “Up-island” we call it here on the Vineyard.
Shared Sacrifice: Call for New Leadership
And so here we are in the summer of 2011 paying the high price for our lack of collective caution with a deleveraging and over-indebtedness that threatens the stability of the modern world. The growing debt crisis in Europe, the dysfunctional U.S. leadership, the tightening of Congressional purse strings—in a time when credit and capital are already anemic—all confirm that the pre-2008 market euphoria is not coming back anytime soon. We could view it as the end. And hopefully it is the end of a reckless disregard for the unintended consequences of our actions. Yet at every end, there is also new beginning.
Conversations with Wall Street
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Headlines are screaming the days’ news regarding the financial crisis, but this book takes you inside them! Hear firsthand observations from Wall Street insiders and find out what went wrong and how to prevent another crisis!
Do Republicans Hate Small Business?
The recent Small Business Jobs and Credit Act was shot down with filibuster assault rifles by the entire Republican Senate. Even one of the Republican authors of the small business bill Olympia Snowe, moderate Senator from Maine, voted “No.” Guys and Gals, while you are fighting amongst yourselves for power and privilege, Small Business America is sinking like the Titanic!
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