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IT Employment Continues to Outperform Overall Labor Market
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In November, IT employment continued its pattern of month-over-month growth and outperforming the…
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The case for enslaving Justin Bieber
Whether he knows it or not, on Tuesday President Obama is going to make the case for enslaving Justin Bieber.…
Read More » December Has Seven of the 10 Best Days to Buy A New Car
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Don’t fret if you just missed out on getting a new car during Black Friday.…
Read More »Conference Board Employment Index Increased Again in November
NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — The Conference Board Employment Trends Index™ (ETI) increased in November to 103.7, up from the revised figure…
Read More »8.6% Unemployment is NOT Good News
To read the first paragraph of the Bureau of Labor statistics one might think that the jobs situation in the…
Read More »Black Friday Weekend Retail Sales Increase 1.9 Percent, Foot-Traffic Down 1.8
CHICAGO, Dec. 1, 2011 — Black Friday weekend is shifting to encompass days prior to the big shopping event, with stores seeing…
Read More »Rejecting FairTax Part Two: What You Don't Know About FairTax
In Part One, I’ll cover the dangers of taxing consumption as a major source of government revenue, both to the individual…
Read More »SAAB: Symptom Of A Bailout Culture
SAAB Automobile AB announced today that, for the sixth month in a row, they can’t meet payroll. The backstory for this American…
Read More »We can't cut the debt just by cutting spending…
The U.S. national debt can’t be trimmed by cutting spending alone. That is the illogical and easily-disproved lie circulating through the…
Read More »Black Friday Tips for Savings & Sanity
YONKERS, N.Y., Nov. 23, 2011 — Next to the Saturday before Christmas, Black Friday ranks as the seminal shopping day of…
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