Didn’t they used to say that bad news came in 3’s? Today if feels like it’s coming in 3,000’s. Jeez, I can’t remember the last good news that I’ve heard about my portfolio, the economy, the workplace, world events, etc. Ouch! Which reminds me of a classmate’s question during my old MBA days. We were …
What will it take for me to invest in the stock market, as you suggested that I should, Mr. President? I know the market is cheap and will eventually rally, but there is just one itty-bitty problem. I don’t trust the leadership of any organization that has received TARP funds or any other taxpayer money. …
These are M.A.D. economic times. That’s M.A.D. as in Mutually Assured Destruction, the old Cold War strategy where no one would be left standing after that first nuke was launched. Economic experts, who agree on little else, agree on this: if our current vicious cycle of “layoffs-driving-down-purchasing-which-increases-layoffs” continues, no one will be left standing. There …
We need a Labor Secretary in the mold of Francis Perkins, whose top priority was to help the working man. In recent days, colleagues have asked me to write about the near-collapse of the economy. My first response was to decline — recognizing all too well that I, like most of our nation’s leaders, was …
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Do not bail out the fat cats. Voters made that perfectly clear, and their re-election-obsessed congressional representatives took heed. Delaying a Wall Street bailout wasn’t wise for the international economy, but chalk up points for the worker bees. They finally got someone’s attention in Washington! Nobody bails me out if I make bad financial decisions. …
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
