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Showing posts with label the economy. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Heartbreaking. Enraging.

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I suppose I should have followed up yesterday's grim post with something a bit lighter, but, hey, in for a dime, in for a dollar. So tod...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Oy, Claudius!

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Anthropic  is an AI company that's created an AI assistant/chatbot named Claude, that has a lot of smart money invested in it - both Goo...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Weird headline or what?

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The Three Mile Island meltdown - which occuured in March of 1979, amazingly nearly 50 years ago now - was the worst commercial nuclear disas...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

A.I. First? After you, please.

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A month or so ago, I was reading an article in The New Yorker on San Francisco , and whether or not it's in a doomloop.  A section in t...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The Great Resignation

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We keep hearing so much about The Great Resignation. All these people quitting their jobs, generally cited with an implication that people a...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

DJIA: surprisingly, it’s (still) pretty darned industrial

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I recently read about a study of the companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrials. Not surprisingly, there’s a lot of volatility in th...
Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Sayonara, Hello Kitty? Not so fast.

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I’m not an especially big fan of Hello Kitty. Sure, it’s cute and a bit quirky. And I do like pink well enough. But enough is enough, an...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013

‘Permanently depressed?’ Maybe, but here’s hoping for ‘more fulfilled and happy.’

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A few weeks ago, I read an at least temporarily depressing article on Bloomberg about the fortunes – or lack thereof – of the Generation Y p...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Twelve Days of Christmas? Who on earth’d want this much stuff?

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Well, PNC’s annual Christmas price index is out, and the cost of one set of each of the fab gifts mentioned in “The Twelve Days of Christma...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Lather, rinse, repeat.

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I haven’t looked at the back of a shampoo bottle in years. (Now the front, I do look at, just to make sure I’m treating my locks to somethin...
Friday, July 01, 2011

Pink Slip Capitals

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This is somewhat belated – the news first came out in May – but my sister Kath just noticed it and pointed it my way. So, better late than n...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Well, the “good” news is, McDonald’s is hiring

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We continue to struggle with high unemployment. We continue to exhibit an incredible lack of interest and/or will in having a rational natio...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Poor Farm

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There was an article in The Boston Globe a couple of weeks back the town of Milton’s (a close-in suburb) trying to figure out what to do wi...
Friday, January 28, 2011

The Uninvited: snubbed by Davos, yet again

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The World Economic Forum – or, as those of us in the know refer to it, Davos; or, as I sometimes think of it as, the Big Kloster – is on th...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Nevergreen: more mfg. jobs exit the Bay State

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In terms of weathering The Great Recession, Massachusetts has been more fortunate than many other states. We were spared, of course, by havi...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Does it get any sadder than this?

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Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these have surely got to include “this holiday season, many Wall Streeters are flying comm...