Posted in business, capitalism, civil rights, economy, jobs, labor, tagged business, corporate, Deloitte, economy, global, job, labor, manpower, McKinsey, multinational, offshore, outsource on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently, TNTalk! has been discussing job offshoring or outsourcing. There is still plenty of information to be uncovered, so we will forge ahead in continuation of Dr. Manning’s series of articles this week.
Job outsourcing or offshoring is recognized by Multinational Corporate America as a major strategy for producing cost savings. Determining the values of these [...]
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Posted in business, economy, government, tagged business, cost, food, inflation, oil prices, producer price index, slowdown, stagflation on March 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What is it with high oil prices? The economic sages say that what really matters is the average price the refineries had to pay for the whole month. Fair enough. Back in 1980, the oil market bore a price of $38 a barrel. Then the sages work their magic. They quickly seek to justify a [...]
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Posted in business, capitalism, commentary, economy, food safety, tagged business, FDA, food, food inspection, food safety, Hepatitus, import, recall, safety, subsidy, supply chain, USDA on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
High-profile examples of food dangers are last year’s tainted pet food scandal and the halting of questionable food products from China and India. A salmonella outbreak caused Dole Fresh Fruit Co. to recall roughly 6,104 cartons of imported cantaloupes from Costa Rica. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that 13% of the American diet is [...]
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Posted in business, commentary, jobs, labor, tagged amendment, business, constitution, job, labor, legislation, religion, workplace on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
The debate rages on. Today in the United States, the First Amendment of the Constitution supposes to protect each citizen’s right to the free exercise of his or her religion or by extension, a lack of one. Many U.S. citizens are confronted with the difficult choice of either faith or livelihood. For the seventh year [...]
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Posted in banking, commentary, economy, government, tagged banking, banking policy, boom, business, construction, economy, foreclosure, home, job, labor, laissez-faire, lend, loss, mood, mortgage, retail, stooge on January 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Ben Stein is at it again and I like the title of his article. It fits. He makes a few surface points to get the average reader thinking while reading the paper on a Sunday morning. He counts down the basic panicspeak: “immense drop in home construction, the slowdown in lending, the falloff in retail [...]
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Posted in banking, business, capitalism, economy, tagged accounting, asset, bank, banking, bilderberger, business, capital, dollar, federal reserve, finance, fractional reserve, inflation, interest, ledger entry, lending, loan, money, monopoly, mortgage, note, risk on January 4, 2008 | No Comments »
This is an mp3 on the basics of the Federal Reserve Bank for those of you that want to listen instead of read. This is basic information, hence the title:
THE FEDERAL RESERVE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT
“A License to Steal”
Host: Eddie Sachs
Interview with Larry Bates
Audio Time: 26:13, Broadband recommended, 4.6 mb
Copyright 2005 by End Time
This audio [...]
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Posted in business, capitalism, commentary, government, jobs, politics, tagged agency, attorney, business, confront, congress, constituent, discrimination, EEOC, employee, employer, injustice, law, lobbyist, money, persistent, phone, politician, power, protect, report, sanity, senator on December 28, 2007 | No Comments »
My friend, Ruth, owned a new start-up business and was put out of business through the racial and sexual discrimination of a high-powered real estate company in North Carolina. The events were pretty cut and dried and the evidence was clear. Ruth had been wronged and something had to be done about this injustice. Needless [...]
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Posted in banking, business, capitalism, government, jobs, politics, tagged banking, business, China, corporate, Deloitte, domestic, economist, economy, educated, elite, federal reserve, IBM, income, India, international trade, labor, multinational, offshore, offsource, oligarchy, outsource, outsourcing, productivity, regulation, sovereignty, tax, workforce on December 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
The non-descript and unmarked global administrative headquarters of Deloitte Shared Services
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Posted in banking, capitalism, commentary, government, politics, retail, sales, tagged banker, business, China, christmas, corporate, credit, credit crunch, devalued, dollar, economy, global, global economy, greed, growth, India, jobs, manufacturing, MasterCard, oligarchy, overseas, retail, sales, Saudi Arabia, sour grapes, third world, united states, vitality, wealth on December 26, 2007 | No Comments »
Just before Christmas, MasterCard released their findings on holiday period spending for this year. They reported that spending from Thanksgiving to Christmas increased “a mere” 3.6 percent over last year. MasterCard Advisors, the promotional services arm of MasterCard, reported that this increase is the weakest performance in at least four years. In the same yearly [...]
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