I recently sent this email to a candidate I was trying to help find a position. She had just been rejected by a client of ours, and I was surprised. I figured this could be helpful to someone else who may looking for work now or in the future. I cannot stress enough the important […]
“There is an old phrase you hardly ever hear anymore: ‘Made in America.’ We will start saying this again.” “We love people coming in, but not illegally.” “The fact is, we are overregulated. People can’t move. They are stymied. We are overregulated. Companies can’t be built.” “Now we are going to open the gates to […]
Whenever I hear people say: “The US had more cases because it reopened faster,” I think: yes, because too many other countries depend on the US. We can’t afford to stay closed for business. We subsidize the rest of the world in many ways, and one of those is through trade. We can’t stay shut […]
The resignation of New York Times reporter Bari Weiss and her statements about resigning from the Gray Lady due to being harassed and targeted should come as no surprise. Let’s look briefly at some of the history of what once was regarded as a well respected and esteemed paper. In 2003 former New York Times […]
As someone who works directly in the labor market and who likes to read think tank pieces and articles by economists, it’s interesting to see smart people try to grapple in abstract terms with what I see every day. Many of the articles written are by people who are in academia or who have a […]
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