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In 2010, we’ll experience a false bottom to the economic recovery. It will be jarring and on the whole, 2010 will feel pretty similar to 2009.
As the economy begins to recover and employment mobility returns, organizations that have been practicing cram-down HR—forcing people to conform to corporate’s plans rather than leveraging corporate to support people—as [...]

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WARNING: Bad Language.
Capitalism, as we know it, is dying.
The people behind the American economy have been cheating it now long enough to have corrupted the system irretrievably.
This is not a diatribe against free markets, Democrats, Republicans, or bankers. To be sure, they can mostly go fuck off, especially those who pay themselves entrepreneur’s rates for [...]

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The cover of Chicago’s Red Eye this morning shows a bright and shiny cartoon smile, over a bright and shiny  yellow background. The headline reads, “Gen Happy: Despite life’s biggest stresses, Millennials are carefree and worry-free—and, for some reason, full of smiles.”
Uh-huh.
Ready? I’m calling BS. It’s not that I doubt the results—I’m sure the calls [...]

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Huh? Jase, What advantage are you talking about?!
I’ll tell you. As news of an economic recovery starts to trickle in here and there, corporate rookies should be licking their chops. Everyone else should be on edge. Especially people in Michigan, Oregon, and South Carolina, where the economic downturn is hitting particularly hard. (As if they [...]

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“Declining revenues” isn’t a problem, it’s feedback

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Profits
ExxonMobil just declared record quarterly profits. For the record, I’m a fan of capitalism.
This isn’t capitalism.
Any econ 101 student can tell you that when a company has unilateral control over a key component of the supply chain, that company holds monopoly power and will exert that power to maximize profits at the expense of its [...]

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