I don’t want to exaggerate the significance of today’s Op-Ed piece by Paul Krugman. The title, “Too Little of a Good Thing,” says it all, namely that the TARP stimulus did its job of stopping the free-fall of the economy, but that unemployment will continue to plague us for years because it was too small […]
In today’s NYTimes, page one, comes this revelation: a compromise has been reached that just may be the breakthrough for that “Press Shield” law which has been withering in the Senate. It is a disturbing development. The very idea of a press shield law is debatable; it may actually be to the detriment of the press (more […]
It’s interesting that so many people are openly examining the value of a college degree lately. The subject seems to be coming up because, in this recession, the most expensive items in the marketplace are ripe for cost-benefit analysis. Even so, the college degree has so come to be considered “necessary” for success, that […]
This my first posting on WordPress, and I just want to see how it looks. I’ve been on blogger for a couple of years, and eventually I’ll import the whole collection here. This blog should connect somehow to my job board website – interpretersgroup.com – but I’ll continue to discuss topics that interest me. Like […]
