Instead of labeling the majority, let’s build real coalitions for change, says Farai Chideya. By: Farai Chideya | Posted: December 16, 2011 at 4:37 PM For some people it was 9/11. For me it was Hurricane Katrina. “It” is the moment when you realize that the safety net you thought was beneath you has been shredded, the implicit [...]
BY FC EXPERT BLOGGER LYNETTE CHIANG Thu Oct 9, 2008 While meandering around the Murray Hill district of Manhattan, I was stopped dead by an intriguing sign: “Sal Anthony, famous Italian chef, has gone raw!” An Italian Chef going raw? Is that like a Chanel shopper going Goth? Delightful oxymorons scotch-taped in windows always sucker [...]
Uploaded by TheAgendaProject on Jun 6, 2011 Ten year ago, Republicans made a mistake. They gave tax cuts to millionaires. They decided our country needed less money and millionaires needed more. Now our country doesn’t have the money we need to build an economy that will work for all of us. We need better roads [...]
The Bottom Line: What future entrepreneurs will look like, Georgetown’s biz-school dean and more. By: Frank McCoy | December 6, 2011 at 12:04 AM The writers and editors of Businessinsider.com must be sure that most of their readers don’t read Black Enterprise or know any black entrepreneurs (paging Michael Arrington), a conclusion that is also probably true, to [...]
By Nick Hanauer December 01, 2011, 8:53 PM EST businessweek.com Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — It is a tenet of American economic beliefs, and an article of faith for Republicans that is seldom contested by Democrats: If taxes are raised on the rich, job creation will stop. Trouble is, sometimes the things that we know to [...]
Steve Denning, Contributor forbes.com There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer. Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management “Imagine an NFL coach,” writes Roger Martin, Dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in his important new book, Fixing the Game, “holding a press conference on Wednesday [...]
moveon.org Posted on November 30, 2011 by Brandon An extremely well-made clip, featuring economists who get it — and have signed a statement in solidarity. Occupy Economics from Softbox on Vimeo. Found on Econ4. Originally submitted by Brandon W.
Steve Denning, Contributor RADICAL MANAGEMENT: Rethinking leadership and innovation forbes.com When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift It is clear to anyone who has studied the financial crisis of 2008 that the private sector’s drive [...]
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Europe’s debt crisis had shown up a “major flaw” in the 17-member euro zone system and it would take more than words to fix it. “There is a major flaw in the euro system … I do know the system as presently designed has a major flaw and that flaw [...]
by DAVID WELNA November 16, 2011 npr.com The last in a three-part series on thinkers who have had a lasting influence on economic policymakers. Other stories featured Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek. On his deathbed the year after World War II ended, John Maynard Keynes is said to have remarked that his only regret in life was that [...]
Share this to remind people never to lose heart! Found on Imgur. Originally submitted by Linda P.
storyofstuff.org The United States isn’t broke; we’re the richest country on the planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken, producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other country. In these and so many other ways, it just isn’t working. [...]
Hayley Miller huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON — Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) said in a YouTube video released on Saturday that Congress should “step up” and support the Occupy Wall Street movement. “What we need to do as members of Congress is step up and do our job: create some jobs, put this economy in order, get some lending back [...]
By KIRK JOHNSON Published: October 15, 2011 nytimes.com SALT LAKE CITY — Jon M. Huntsman Sr. — billionaire industrialist, father of a presidential hopeful, four-time cancer survivor — has no patience for the Scrooges of the world. Even the philanthropist club of billionaires started by Mr. Huntsman’s friend Warren E. Buffett that is trying to enlist the [...]
Janell Ross huffingtonpost.com Robert Johnson, First Black American Billionaire, Proposes Plan To Reduce Black Unemployment As Congress weighs the Obama administration’s jobs package, RLJ Companies CEO Robert Johnson is pushing a proposal that he says marshals the capacity of the nation’s biggest companies to significantly reduce black unemployment. Johnson has dubbed his idea the “RLJ [...]
By Eugene Robinson, Published: October 10 washingtonpost.com Occupy Wall Street and its kindred protests around the country are inept, incoherent and hopelessly quixotic. God, I love ’em. I love every little thing about these gloriously amateurish sit-ins. I love that they are spontaneous, leaderless and open-ended. I love that the protesters refuse to issue specific demands [...]
Posted by Michael Schuman Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:38 am time.com For much of the past 30 years, the long-running, 20th-century contest between state and market had appeared settled. The strong, post-Reagan economic performance of the U.S. based on deregulation, free trade and capital flows and globalization appeared to confirm the virtues of liberal economic [...]
by JENNIFER LUDDEN September 28, 2011 npr.com By some counts, fewer than half of Americans have ever tried to calculate how much they’ll need for retirement. And those who do? In one recent survey, half told pollsters they just guessed. A new poll for NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health [...]
By Dan Fastenberg, Posted Aug 24th 2011 @ 9:39AM It was also an event worth recording when a month would pass without anyone being shot in his housing project, he writes. So he was determined from a young age to become self-sufficient. He told AOL Jobs that he credits the poverty of his childhood as the great motivating [...]
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