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Bullish on the Valley View

Bullish on the Valley View

By Chris Selland on July 7, 2012

My fellow Enterprise Irregular Sameer Patel took me to task a bit earlier today for my prior post of the still-weak employment situation. @cselland stop being a party pooper already. This is twitter, the capsule where we confine our selves to a bubbly valley view. 🙂 — Sameer Patel (@SameerPatel) July 7, 2012   While […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged growth, innovation, unemployment, Washington | 1 Response

Economics On The Ground in Silicon Valley

Economics On The Ground in Silicon Valley

By Denis Pombriant on October 21, 2011

The economy appears to be on the minds of magazine editors these days and no wonder.  With the stimulus running out the economy appears to be headed south again.  This contradicts my experience last week in Silicon Valley where the CEOs I met with said they were, 1)   Raising more money, not because they need […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Current Affairs, economics, keynes, salesforce.com, Silicon Valley, stimulus, The Economist, The New Yorker, unemployment

Another Form of Supply Risk -- Organized Labor is More Out of Touch Than Ever

Another Form of Supply Risk — Organized Labor is More Out of Touch Than Ever

By Jason Busch on July 2, 2010

A visitor to our office earlier this week brought up his outsider view of Chicago as a city where organized labor was decimating the conference business. $444 per hour union forklift drivers will do that to you, I suppose. His observation was correct, however, given the recent flight of conferences from the city due to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Employment, Labor, organized labor, Trade union, unemployment

Wealth Gap

Wealth Gap

By Jeff Nolan on May 11, 2010

My friend Meryl sent me this and asked for comment… rather than send her 40 tweets I thought a blog post was in order. The basic thesis of the Business Insider piece is that the gap between rich and poor has widened. By the way, the world isn’t flat either… Here’s my problem with this […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Economic growth, economy, Inflation, Productivity, Progressive tax, Tax, unemployment, Wealth gap

The Stimulus Backlash

The Stimulus Backlash

By Jeff Nolan on November 23, 2009

It appears that one very significant problem that the Administration and the Federal Reserve created, a frightening spike in unemployment, is the result of a massive miscalculation about how the staggering borrowing by the government would play out.

The Fed endorsed a policy of record borrowing under the theory that we were at risk of a […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Federal Reserve, federal spending, geithner, Government debt, Ron Paul, stimulus, unemployment | 1 Response

Numbers, Volume 33

Numbers, Volume 33

By Michael Coté on November 10, 2009

Firefox is 5, $3 IBM SaaS, the cloud took my job.

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, Firefox, iPhone, layoffs, lotus connections, microsoft, Numbers, Palm Pre, redmonk, unemployment, unisys

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