America works even when it's tried in Western Europe, and the old world fails even when it's tried in North America.    Read More

The business community is neither hiring, nor firing. Labor markets are frozen in regulatory amber; this will be a Jurassic Park recovery. How can we grow without more people working? The answer is: Instead of more people working, we'll get the same number of people to do more work.   Read More

Today we saw the release of two piece of important employment data: the Challenger, Gray & Christmas monthly survey of lay-offs and the Monster Employment Index which measures on-line want ads.   Read More

Today's data dump from the Bureau of Economic Analysis tells us something very important: Obama's economic stimulus plan has not worked.   Read More

This is the problem with the new 'personal branding' business model: persons are more fragile than business. We are deeply wired to identify with other people more than with corporations or logos or abstractions.    Read More