Joel Klebanoff: Stuff & Nonsense

To worry is to be. To be is to worry.

Posts Tagged ‘recession’

Freely Unemployed —

Yesterday I read an article titled The Corporate Giveback in the Report on Business section of The Globe and Mail, a major Canadian newspaper. The article described how a number of companies are helping people who have become unemployed. The offers vary from company to company, but, in some cases, they include refunds on purchases [...]

The End is Nigh —

Many people want to know when the current recession will end. The answer to that question is so blindingly obvious that I’m surprised that all economists around the world have not figured it out yet. They haven’t. In fact, as best I can tell, none of them have come up with the right answer so [...]

Economic Update —

Announcer: You’re watching the Internet BS News Network, IBSNN, the Internet’s most authoritative news source, for whatever that’s worth. Anchorperson: Welcome back. We’re getting ready to take you live to a press conference called by Penny Lesse, senior economics advisor to the government. Ms. Lesse holds a record four PhDs in economics, one from each [...]

Working Bees —

Bee populations are declining in many parts of the world. Understand, I’m not talking about people named Bee; I have no information on the trajectory of their numbers. Instead, I’m referring to those common, although increasingly less common, insects that were brought into existence and have been genetically engineered by the drug companies to increase [...]