Yeah, a few "stars" are alerting people to the environmental dangers but they are just railroading this through, including media blitzes due to the huge profits to be made.
Most major cable and broadcast news outlets have largely ignored the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. It's worth noting that while these media companies have chosen to conceal the deal from their viewers, behind closed doors, they are spending a considerable sum ensuring that they emerge as beneficiaries of the TPP.
Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson may be the world's biggest fracker (Exxon is the biggest natural gas producer in the U.S.) but he isn't stupid. He'll frack my backyard and tell me it's good for me and he'll frack your place too, but don't let any frackers near his home. He knows damn well that fracking lowers property values, but he wouldn't admit it until the frackers came to his place. He just joined a lawsuit to stop the fracking because it would lower the value of his property.
"Employers are posting jobs that don’t really exist, seeking candidates they don’t want, and paying for bogus non-ads to show there’s an IT labor shortage in America. Except of course there isn’t an IT labor shortage."
So all those applications you filled out were all a waste of time.
The concept of statistcal analysis is always suspect. As the old saying goes : "... figures never lie; but liars figure" can be applied to the insane idea that in calculating the CPI (Consumer Price Index) the rising costs of foods and energy are removed from their official statements. Who among us does not need food or energy ?
There should be accountability in whatever our official government publicly states as factual. The spin-masters must be held accountable and silenced. While the basic human needs of food, shelter (housing), energy (heat & lighting), clothing, clean drinking water, transportation, medicines & healthcare are essential to life, the presiding government persists in twisting the numbers for political reasons; telling the public that things aren't as bad as they really experience in trying to survive. [Who you going to believe - an official statement from the government or what you see and experience with your own lying eyes ?]
We pay the federal government with our tax dollars, should they not be expected to give us truth in return ? As in the case of the official "unemployment rate", with nearly half of the public not employed, the 6 or 7% official statistical statement is a farce; it only counts those who are qualified for and have applied for unemployment insurance - not the actual percentage of people wanting, willing and seeking work.
If releasing truely actual statistics make politicians look bad and the current administration seem inept, --it is because they are !
I believe that with every official governmental release of statistical information, there should at least be a disclaimer as to how the facts were calculated; similar to the requirements placed upon drug manufacturers who must state the side-effects of their product; "... leading to, and possibly causing death."
It's time for transparancy and accountability; if our official government policy is allowed to continue in picking and chooseing which facts are reported and which facts are "too inconvenienient" to release, then why do not speak with authority (as assumed). Their "facts" are "fiction" and do not accurately represent what people are experiencing in reality. A trip to the supermarket will confirm this, if you can afford the gas to get there and back.
Forbes says because of fracking, natural gas "is inexpensive in cost and abundant in supply". So if fracking is supposed to make the U.S. more energy independent, why is the cost going up so much; because it's being exported?
Why is the cost of shelter also rising; because of private equity buying mortgages in default, renting and flipping?
If the Keystone pipeline is ever approved, will gas at the pump also rise; or because of fracking, it will be "inexpensive in cost and abundant in supply"?
If we mastered nuclear fusion, we'd never be energy independent or have energy that is "inexpensive in cost and abundant in supply" — corporate America will make sure of that, either with a patent, or by some other means.
"The cutting edge of computer chips today will probably look like a steady old cheap workhorse of a chip in about five years. Intel is now etching transistors at 22 nanometers, and as the company points out, you could fit 6,000 of these transistors across the width of a human hair; or if you prefer, it would take 6 million of these 22 nanometer transistors to cover the period at the end of a sentence. Also, a 22 nanometer transistor can switch on and off 100 billion times in a second."
You're hearing a war of lies, spin and BS right now on immigration w.r.t. the labor market. The corporate lobbyists are out in full war gear, loading up the Internet with lies and fiction.
Good news is people have heard these same lies for some long, they can identify most of it as B.S. You should too.
The statistics are there to disprove these lobbyist claims, just takes awhile to calculate them and do the leg work.
The EB-5 visa program was designed to spur investment by rewarding rich foreigners who commit to at least $1 million in job-creating U.S. businesses — $500,000 in economically depressed areas — with green cards, signifying lawful permanent residency. Applications associated with the EB-5 program traditionally have a low denial rate, meaning the government accepts most people who make claims based on the investor program. But the program is riff with fraud.
Sorry for the low articles. I have a family emergency. I hope all who visit this site daily just continue to write, put up Instapopulists and use the comments. Hopefully I'll have some new stuff soon, plenty to write about!
"The job-finding rate is still substantially below its pre-recession levels, suggesting that it is still difficult for the unemployed to find work ...both the vacancy-to-unemployment ratio and matching efficiency declined during the Great Recession and have not recovered since ... the most important factor in the low job-finding rate is the persistently low level of vacancies per unemployed."
Is the economy just a game of "Monopoly" for the top 0.01% (or are they just gambling for entertainment?)
Last year George Soros bet $1.3 billion that the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index would fall. (Remember when he shorted the British pound for $10 billion, betting against it?)
And how many jobs does this create? How much wealth is created by transferring wealth?
Moore’s law has swept much of the modern world along with it. Some estimates ascribe up to 40 percent of the global productivity growth achieved during the last two decades to the expansion of information and communication technologies made possible by semiconductor performance and cost improvements.
The authors of The Second Machine Age predict that intelligent machines will increasingly displace many workers. But a Washington Post article claims that they also believe that work will eventually shift to new jobs that technology creates.
But others believe that the problems will get even worse in the coming decades: As information technology allows the automation of more and more middle-class jobs, fewer workers will be able to find work.
But yet the authors of The Second Machine Age say “there’s never been a worse time to be a worker with only ‘ordinary’ skills and abilities to offer, because computers, robots, and other digital technologies are acquiring these skills and abilities at an extraordinary rate.”
As a layman, I can only look back at the last 30 years to predict the next 30.
I was quoting a conservative who blamed the conservatives. Personally, I think both parties let us down over the last 30 years, so there's plenty of blame to go around—but too many examples to list as a comment right now though ;)
There’s newer research suggesting that the demand for skilled workers has actually decelerated in recent years. .. They look at tasks, jobs, and earnings, and find that the demand for skilled workers underwent a reversal around 2000.
Yeah, a few "stars" are alerting people to the environmental dangers but they are just railroading this through, including media blitzes due to the huge profits to be made.
Most major cable and broadcast news outlets have largely ignored the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. It's worth noting that while these media companies have chosen to conceal the deal from their viewers, behind closed doors, they are spending a considerable sum ensuring that they emerge as beneficiaries of the TPP.
http://www.republicreport.org/2014/tpp-media-companies/
Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson may be the world's biggest fracker (Exxon is the biggest natural gas producer in the U.S.) but he isn't stupid. He'll frack my backyard and tell me it's good for me and he'll frack your place too, but don't let any frackers near his home. He knows damn well that fracking lowers property values, but he wouldn't admit it until the frackers came to his place. He just joined a lawsuit to stop the fracking because it would lower the value of his property.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/21/1279443/-Exxon-CEO-Joins-Lawsui...
"Employers are posting jobs that don’t really exist, seeking candidates they don’t want, and paying for bogus non-ads to show there’s an IT labor shortage in America. Except of course there isn’t an IT labor shortage."
So all those applications you filled out were all a waste of time.
http://www.cringely.com/2013/07/18/so-thats-how-h-1b-visa-fraud-is-done/
The concept of statistcal analysis is always suspect. As the old saying goes : "... figures never lie; but liars figure" can be applied to the insane idea that in calculating the CPI (Consumer Price Index) the rising costs of foods and energy are removed from their official statements. Who among us does not need food or energy ?
There should be accountability in whatever our official government publicly states as factual. The spin-masters must be held accountable and silenced. While the basic human needs of food, shelter (housing), energy (heat & lighting), clothing, clean drinking water, transportation, medicines & healthcare are essential to life, the presiding government persists in twisting the numbers for political reasons; telling the public that things aren't as bad as they really experience in trying to survive. [Who you going to believe - an official statement from the government or what you see and experience with your own lying eyes ?]
We pay the federal government with our tax dollars, should they not be expected to give us truth in return ? As in the case of the official "unemployment rate", with nearly half of the public not employed, the 6 or 7% official statistical statement is a farce; it only counts those who are qualified for and have applied for unemployment insurance - not the actual percentage of people wanting, willing and seeking work.
If releasing truely actual statistics make politicians look bad and the current administration seem inept, --it is because they are !
I believe that with every official governmental release of statistical information, there should at least be a disclaimer as to how the facts were calculated; similar to the requirements placed upon drug manufacturers who must state the side-effects of their product; "... leading to, and possibly causing death."
It's time for transparancy and accountability; if our official government policy is allowed to continue in picking and chooseing which facts are reported and which facts are "too inconvenienient" to release, then why do not speak with authority (as assumed). Their "facts" are "fiction" and do not accurately represent what people are experiencing in reality. A trip to the supermarket will confirm this, if you can afford the gas to get there and back.
Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us?
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/robots-artificial-intelligence-...
Forbes says because of fracking, natural gas "is inexpensive in cost and abundant in supply". So if fracking is supposed to make the U.S. more energy independent, why is the cost going up so much; because it's being exported?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherskroupa/2014/02/19/fracking-polit...
Why is the cost of shelter also rising; because of private equity buying mortgages in default, renting and flipping?
If the Keystone pipeline is ever approved, will gas at the pump also rise; or because of fracking, it will be "inexpensive in cost and abundant in supply"?
If we mastered nuclear fusion, we'd never be energy independent or have energy that is "inexpensive in cost and abundant in supply" — corporate America will make sure of that, either with a patent, or by some other means.
"The cutting edge of computer chips today will probably look like a steady old cheap workhorse of a chip in about five years. Intel is now etching transistors at 22 nanometers, and as the company points out, you could fit 6,000 of these transistors across the width of a human hair; or if you prefer, it would take 6 million of these 22 nanometer transistors to cover the period at the end of a sentence. Also, a 22 nanometer transistor can switch on and off 100 billion times in a second."
http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2014/02/moores-law-at-least-lit...
You're hearing a war of lies, spin and BS right now on immigration w.r.t. the labor market. The corporate lobbyists are out in full war gear, loading up the Internet with lies and fiction.
Good news is people have heard these same lies for some long, they can identify most of it as B.S. You should too.
The statistics are there to disprove these lobbyist claims, just takes awhile to calculate them and do the leg work.
Generally speaking one needs to prove why people are leaving the labor force through statistics and valid statistics at that.
What happens in economics is you can get these "dualing wars" where one group claims x and one group claims x.
Bottom line, correct math doesn't lie and very often these arguments come about due to differing data assumptions and timelines.
So, that's what is going on, but unfortunately.....you must do CORRECT statistical analysis to prove your case.
The EB-5 visa program was designed to spur investment by rewarding rich foreigners who commit to at least $1 million in job-creating U.S. businesses — $500,000 in economically depressed areas — with green cards, signifying lawful permanent residency. Applications associated with the EB-5 program traditionally have a low denial rate, meaning the government accepts most people who make claims based on the investor program. But the program is riff with fraud.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/18/issues-of-corruption-fra...
Sorry for the low articles. I have a family emergency. I hope all who visit this site daily just continue to write, put up Instapopulists and use the comments. Hopefully I'll have some new stuff soon, plenty to write about!
"The job-finding rate is still substantially below its pre-recession levels, suggesting that it is still difficult for the unemployed to find work ...both the vacancy-to-unemployment ratio and matching efficiency declined during the Great Recession and have not recovered since ... the most important factor in the low job-finding rate is the persistently low level of vacancies per unemployed."
http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2014/02/why-is-the-job-find...
Is the economy just a game of "Monopoly" for the top 0.01% (or are they just gambling for entertainment?)
Last year George Soros bet $1.3 billion that the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index would fall. (Remember when he shorted the British pound for $10 billion, betting against it?)
And how many jobs does this create? How much wealth is created by transferring wealth?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/18/george-soros-stock-market_n_481...
Moore’s law has swept much of the modern world along with it. Some estimates ascribe up to 40 percent of the global productivity growth achieved during the last two decades to the expansion of information and communication technologies made possible by semiconductor performance and cost improvements.
http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2014/02/moores-law-at-least-lit...
The authors of The Second Machine Age predict that intelligent machines will increasingly displace many workers. But a Washington Post article claims that they also believe that work will eventually shift to new jobs that technology creates.
But others believe that the problems will get even worse in the coming decades: As information technology allows the automation of more and more middle-class jobs, fewer workers will be able to find work.
But yet the authors of The Second Machine Age say “there’s never been a worse time to be a worker with only ‘ordinary’ skills and abilities to offer, because computers, robots, and other digital technologies are acquiring these skills and abilities at an extraordinary rate.”
As a layman, I can only look back at the last 30 years to predict the next 30.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/18/some-predic...
I was quoting a conservative who blamed the conservatives. Personally, I think both parties let us down over the last 30 years, so there's plenty of blame to go around—but too many examples to list as a comment right now though ;)
You're the best!
By Jared Eernstein
There’s newer research suggesting that the demand for skilled workers has actually decelerated in recent years. .. They look at tasks, jobs, and earnings, and find that the demand for skilled workers underwent a reversal around 2000.
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/a-bit-more-on-technology-jobs-and-wages/
Maybe this is the same thing?
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/a-bit-more-on-technology-jobs-and-wages/
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