Plain Talk About The Current Crisis

Plain Talk About The Current Crisis

A Citizen Perspective It’s impossible to default on the debt—-years down the road, maybe. Average monthly interest costs are $18 billion…we take in on average $225 billion. By law, the president must pay interest first before anything else. In addition to...
Is the Job Outlook and Employment Improving?

Is the Job Outlook and Employment Improving?

By Neil Irwin | If you only looked at the headlines on Friday’s August jobs numbers, you’d think “Not bad!” You would also be completely wrong. Yes, the unemployment rate fell a notch to 7.3 percent, from 7.4 percent in July. Yes, the nation added 169,000 jobs,...
I Mean Business

I Mean Business

By Jason Fertig | Many courses teach about business, but not how to actually do it. As a professor in a business school, each semester I strive to make my courses relevant for students.  For readers who are not well-versed in the ins-and-out of B-Schools, my admission...
Less Content for More Money

Less Content for More Money

By Anne D. Neal | Baltimore Sun | Maryland’s public honors college charges too much and delivers too little, and prospective students are starting to catch on. “Please sir, I want some more.” The famous phrase of Oliver Twist would seem tragically...