All Posts Tagged With: "jobs"
Happy New Year: Corporate Profits Up, Taxes Down
If you’re looking for hard economic news, this year-end mindbender from the Bureau of Economic Analysis ought to do the trick: corporate profits surged in the third quarter while corporate taxes fell. And more hard news: on average folks who work in financial services make 52 percent more than you do. “Corporate profits with inventory [...]
27Dec2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Occupy Movement Eyes Foreclosures & Squat-Ins
The Oakland branch of the Occupy movement has passed a resolution favoring the seizure of foreclosed and abondoned homes. There are a lot of homes available for squatters in the state because of unpaid mortgages and loans. California has the nation’s second-highest foreclosure rate according to RealtyTrac. Nevada ranks #1. While the Occupy movement started [...]
4Nov2011 | Peter G. Miller | 2 comments | Continued
American Chopper — Management Doesn’t Get It
There’s probably no better show that reflects workplace tensions than Discovery Channel’s American Chopper. How do you deal with skilled workers when you’re the owner? Orange County Choppers is a success story, in the sense of something that grew over time to a business that included a custom-built “international headquarters” to construct and show bikes. [...]
10Oct2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
How Steve Jobs Would Have Fixed The Mortgage Mess
The passing of Steve Jobs came too soon. It didn’t matter if you were a fan of Apple products or not, no one would deny that Jobs radically changed the worlds of computing, music, movie animation and product design — and all for the better. Our condolences to his family and friends. Unfortunately, there’s no [...]
7Oct2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
American Chopper — Family Values, Family Conflict
In the usual scheme of things a foreclosure is a pretty big deal, but on the American Chopper TV series it’s not much more than a distraction. Instead of mortgages, the bigger issue is family dynamics — in this case a father and sons with a lot of visible and verbal collisions, inter-personal disputes which [...]
4Oct2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
America’s Big Banks, America’s Financial Vietnam
Three years ago the most-powerful instutitions in America were the nation’s largest banks and brokerages, Wall Street for short. While millions of people were losing their homes, their jobs and their savings, the nation’s elite extracted a $700 billion line-of-credit from Uncle Sam. Now Wall Street is our financial Vietnam. It’s broken. The old cures [...]
3Oct2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
American Chopper: Why Foreclosure Had To Happen
Like millions of property owners, Orange County Choppers has felt the sting of foreclosure and could be moving to smaller quarters. It’s a “business decision” says the senior Paul Teutel, speaking on the downsizing episode of the American Chopper TV series. You could see this coming for much of the past year. In November 2010, [...]
13Sep2011 | Peter G. Miller | 10 comments | Continued
9/11 — How We’ve Changed In A Decade
Has it been ten years already? Much has changed since the terrorist destruction of the Twin Towers, an awful event which has produced awful consequences. If the attack was designed to reduce the US presence in Muslim states it surely back-fired. A decade later the US continues to have massive military forces in Iraq and [...]
11Sep2011 | Peter G. Miller | 1 comment | Continued
Do We Have A Depression In America?
Forget recession. Is America in the midst of a full-blown, no joking, outright depression? “If the notion that we are merely living through the aftereffects of a mere ‘recession’ that ended in 2009 sounds somewhat ridiculous, that’s because it is,” says Richard A. Posner, a federal judge and law school lecturer based in Chicago. “If [...]
24Aug2011 | Peter G. Miller | 6 comments | Continued
How Jobs at 75 Cents an Hour are Killing US Real Estate
I’m not sure what pills are used to treat depression, but they ought to be available to real estate buyers and sellers by the bucket. Real estate folks need such pharmaceutical assistance because for the past five years the news has been dominated by the worst financial conditions since the Great Depression, a time which [...]
29Jun2011 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
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