Category Archives: Jobs

$30 Billion to Lend, and Treasury Can’t Figure Out How to Do So

Posted on June 28, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

A president who really cared about unemployment would have the heads of the responsible (or irresponsible as the case may be) parties mounted on the White House fence. If he cared.
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Posted in Economics, Jobs | 3 Comments

Budgetary Assumptions Are Always Pessimistic: The Medicare Edition

Posted on June 17, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

A long history of wrong projections.
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Posted in Healthcare, Jobs, Social Security | 3 Comments

We Are Experiencing the Lowest Male Employment in Recorded U.S. History…

Posted on June 15, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

…but these are green shoots merely “bumps in the road.” Or something.
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Posted in Economics, Jobs | 14 Comments

According to IKEA, the U.S. Is Now a Developing Country: Why You Should Boycott IKEA

Posted on April 19, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

IKEA: busting unions and treating U.S. workers far worse than Swedish ones.
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, Bidness, Jobs, Racism, Unions | 12 Comments

The Budget Deal Isn’t a Compromise, but a Rout

Posted on April 10, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

The Democrats were routed on the economics.
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Posted in Democrats, Fucking Morons, Jobs | 12 Comments

A Sustainable Research Model

Posted on March 8, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

A research center is not a faculty department that doesn’t teach.
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Posted in Career Stuff, Jobs | 1 Comment

The Disappearance of the Unemployment Crisis: A Tale of Three Word Clouds

Posted on February 26, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Visualizing the invisible phenomenon.
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DeLong Wins the Internet: The Tolerance of High Unemployment Edition

Posted on February 26, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

The enduring enigma of the vanishing of the employment deficit.
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20+ Years of Wage Data: America Needs a Raise

Posted on February 21, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

Two-thirds of U.S. workers haven’t seen any economic gains in thirty years.
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Posted in Economics, Jobs | 34 Comments

My Response to the State of the Union: Let’s Just Pretend That It Never Happened

Posted on January 27, 2011 by mikethemadbiologist

“We do big things.” Not so much.
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Posted in Democrats, Economics, Education, Fucking Morons, Jobs, Massachusetts, NIH, Social Security | 5 Comments