Not your grandpa’s job market anymore

My friends at Forbes.com recently asked me the following question:
Recently, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a jump in the unemployment rate to 10.2%.Some economists think we could be looking at 10.5% by early next year.
Given these grim forecasts, how do you counsel recent college graduates and others entering the job market for [...]

Nonemployers, the future, and the illusion of control

So, in case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been writing an awful lot about nonemployer businesses lately.
Not that I don’t always write about them a lot. And not that it doesn’t make sense for me to write about them, since they constitute the vast majority of microbusinesses.
But what I hope I managed to convey amidst all [...]

Self-employment: what holds them back?

Here’s a recent post to the New York Times Economix blog that I found very interesting.
Catherine Rampbell, author of the post, cites a study by the liberal-leaning (according to Ms. Rampbell) Center for Economic and Policy Research, which finds that “By every measure of small-business employment, the United States has among the world’s smallest small-business [...]

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