by Whitney | Sep 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
I just saw Michael Bloomberg give an impressive interview on Meet The Press. I think he is well informed, and also realistic in what we need to do, including improving the education system we have here in the US. He spoke of the auto industry having reduced...
by Whitney | Jul 18, 2008 | community, economics, politics
There’s a great blog post over at IT Toolbox, on the Original Thinking blog by Dennis Stevenson on The Myth of Job Security- Employer Version, with a promise for a follow up giving the employee’s point of view. I was going to comment, but because my...
by Whitney | Jul 3, 2008 | education, learning, Uncategorized
One of the things I think we do REALLY poorly in this country is teaching our kids how money works. I didn’t get a course in economics until college, but most of the best lessons I learned about money were through various jobs. One was working as a customer...
by Whitney | May 6, 2008 | Uncategorized
Julien Smith has a great video posted on his blog, featuring a lecture by Elizabeth Warren ,a law professor at Harvard Law School, discussing the gradual erosion of the American Middle Class over time. The most important points she makes (to me) are the financial...
by Whitney | Dec 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
One of the things that always strikes me as unfair in our capitalist system is the disparate impact problem. If you have money in this country, things actually get cheaper and more affordable. If you don’t have very much money, you are much more vulnerable to...
