Laboring my way into Labor Day weekend

Tomorrow is slated to be a pretty busy day for your trusty Journal Blogger. I’ll start the day by joining Jim Blasingame during the first segment of his daily radio show to talk about public policy and microbusinesses. Then I’ll be participating in Clean Sweep Challenge Day, when I’ll disinter my desk, clear the decks in time to pitch the kids back out the door to school, and get an average of six hours of my day back.

GB, phone home

The latest numbers out from the Commerce Department show that the economy slowed significantly during the second quarter, growing at 2.9% compared to 5.6% during the first quarter. Core inflation is up, too.
Reports from Census earlier this week indicated that poverty rates continue to rise and wages continue to stagnate (in spite of productivity gains). [...]

You don’t have to be slime if you don’t want to be

Seth is holding forth on the morality of marketing — a good topic and well, ya know … it’s probably about time somebody did.
Actually, in justice to the marketers, they probably ponder the question in internal industry circles more often than they get credit for. It’s unfortunate that people tend to associate a whole group [...]

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