New Jobs Numbers Hint At Shape of Recovery

Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest installment of its business employment dynamic data, this time covering the fourth quarter of 2009.
The employment dynamics data is important because it provides a more complete picture of the labor market than you get from the monthly employment numbers we get from the Labor Department. [...]

The economy: a conversation with Anne Wenzel

Anne Wenzel is one of my oldest business buddies. We’ve often moved in roughly the same circles of women Internet pure-play operators and Anne has been an invaluable resource for me over the years as I’ve tried to make sense of the economy for The MicroEnterprise Journal.
And, naturally, Anne is also a fairly brilliant economist [...]

[Friday Musical Interlude] Happy Independents Day!

There has been research which indicates that, beyond a certain point, lifestyle improvements do not necessarily improve one’s quality of life.
There are been other research that found that people, in general, have no desire to be rich (which is why the lack of desire of most small business owners to build empires makes perfect sense).
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