Credit given. Oregon Legislature will mandate that kids learn personal finance in high school. Once in a while, they do the right thing.
The new graduates are so unskilled. They come out with degrees, yet can't do the job they're hired to do. A college degree doesn't mean as much as it used to. But reading the article, it's clear - the attitudes of the young hires often suck.
If you go to their website, American Physician Placement, an emergency physician staffing company, still says (as of today) that it's "The Newest and Fastest-Growing Emergency Medicine Management Company". Well, they're closing at the end of this month. Some people say it's the first sign of big problems ahead in the physician staffing world. Lots of blame to go around. But clearly it's no longer profitable to run a business helping ER doctors find jobs.
McDonald's is struggling? I remember when it was considered a safe investment. Because no matter how bad the economy was, people still went to McD because it was affordable comfort food, and kids still demanded it. What's going on now? The stock market's down because of the Fitch downgrade. Folks like Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, and even Camas' Ken Fisher (well, used to be Camas) says not to worry about this. Well, maybe folks like them don't have to worry, but we do. It's sad how low the USA is in the ranking of credit ratings, even though we control the world's reserve currency. We should be at the top, really. Oh, and guess who was president when S&P downgraded the USA to AA+ status from AAA? Yeah, it was Obama in 2011. Coincidence?
"Just for educational purposes". Simon Willison highlights a chat problem. Hope this gets fixed. The world we grew up in no longer exists.
Nifty. Scientists create a material five times lighter and four times stronger than steel. But will it crack? Or shatter?