Hankincents chat
My friend Rob Story and I live in opposite-land. He’s tall and I’m short. He took serious classes for an engineering degree, while I… took wine tasting and played newspaper.
Consequently, he graduated with a master’s degree from Virginia Tech, got a job and moved to D.C. with his girlfriend Sheri. I, on the other hand, [...]
Going dutch
The unemployment statistics released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the end of last week are pretty grim. For June, unemployment reached 9.5 percent nationally, up from 9.4 percent in May. The last time we’ve seen unemployment this high was in the early 1980s.
There’s no consensus on what this means for recovery, but most [...]
