It’s an election year and jobs are on every candidate’s agenda. In both Washington and Massachusetts, new jobs bills are being debated. We hear about “green” jobs and the growing job sectors in health care, education and business services. But, what we don’t hear enough about is how to make sure we have a workforce, [...]

A bond is a debt investment in which an investor loans a certain amount of money, for a certain amount of time, with a certain interest rate, to a company. A government bond is a bond issued by a national government denominated in the country’s own currency. Bonds issued by national governments in foreign currencies [...]

Jason Bradford with Oil Drum has an interesting opinion piece that was recently published, “The following is the prepared text for a talk I gave in the city hall of Eugene Oregon the evening of Feb. 17, 2010. It was organized by two Lane County commissioners and the city mayor and is part of a [...]

According to The Concord Group Real Estate Adivsors, “Metro Boston’s housing market (excluding Quincy Real Estate) was affected by the real estate bubble earlier than and not as severely as other metro areas around the country. Economic factors and market trends suggest that Metro Boston will be among the first areas to recover in terms of both increased home sales volume and home price appreciation.

Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized or prohibited use of works covered by copyright law, in a way that violates one of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works. According to legal theorist Stephan Kinsella, “A recent decision of [...]

According to Wikipedia, “Lent, in Christian tradition, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial — for the annual commemoration during Holy Week of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events [...]

Jeff Tucker, global economist, just reported a very interesting case of real life economics. He uses the illustration of a laundry mat to aid in his discourse. “The professional laundry I use just informed me that their shirt-folding machine has broken, so they now must fold my shirts by hand. This of course means “an [...]

The Grateful Dead are kind of like the telephone. Simply put, the more product that is spread the greater influence of that product. With all the attention that digital copyrighted media is getting lately one is left to wonder why? Why can’t we all be like Jerry? Original content producers can take solace in the [...]

Citizens raising families, working jobs and paying bills do not watch government as closely as shareholders or stakeholders in private enterprise. A local school district can spend a million dollars fighting a child who wants to hand a candy cane with a religious poem attached to his friends during Christmas, and then hold media events expressing a need for money for education.

Bambauer wrote, “Domino’s has just started a new ad that makes fun of Papa John’s for its defense in a false advertising case: challenged by Pizza Hut over its claim that “Better Ingredients” mean Papa John’s has “Better Pizza,” PJ responded that the statements were “puffery.”