Tag: Economy

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy

Doesn’t matter which side of the isle you sit on or where the roots of your belief system lie, Jeremy Rifkin does an impressive job conceptualizing both historical and current data trends  while laying out a vision for our next few generations. If for nothing 

The golden bubble….

The golden bubble….

Let me start by saying I’m in no way a financial guru or an economist. What I have is this thing between my shoulders that I feed raw data to and it gives me an opinion divided by what I have gained in common sense 

China’s gold BS….

China’s gold BS….

So China’s richest village Huayxi planted a solid gold bull weighing one ton on the 60th floor of their newly built skyscraper. Your welcome China!!

In other news…. Shaw plant closing in Dalton Georgia will lay off 270 people…this will add to the already 7000 jobs cut by the company already. Thanks China!!

Latte’s and Jobs…

Latte’s and Jobs…

Starbucks is by far one of my biggest vices. I like the way Howard Schultz runs the company. I enjoy the folks who work there…they are treated well, have benefits and it shows. I mean how many times have you ordered coffee at Dunks and 

How’s your package?

How’s your package?

So the Prez dropped his nutz….I mean jobs package earlier tonight. It was a middle of the road speech and I think he hit on some decent points. Tax breaks for companies that start hiring again. A cut to payroll taxes for the people who