(Entrepreneur) — Congratulations to the graduates of the class of 2010. You have degree in hand and are excited and ready to face the many opportunities that lay ahead of you. Undoubtedly, many of you harbor the desire to fulfill the true American dream and successfully build your own business. True, the current economic climate is tumultuous, but down markets […]
(New York Times) —Nancy Folbre is an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It’s not that all middle-class jobs have gone missing. It’s just that their growth is sagging compared with that of other jobs. No giant sucking sound, just the gentle hissing of an inner tube losing air, threatening a flat tire that […]
(Businessweek) — Among the global economic upheavals of the past two decades, here’s one worth cheering about: the worldwide spread of entrepreneuriship. Anyone who doubts that should have headed to Monaco last weekend for the World Entrepreneur of the Year awards ceremony. The 42 countries represented at the event included China and several former Soviet-bloc […]
The good news for the market is that expectations are lower for most of the data due out this week.