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Wicked

By Wahl, on August 24, 2010, at 1:03 pm | Leave a comment

Good thing I spent all that time building out KohlerHome.com for my parents this month. If today’s housing data is any marker, and knowing my dad’s lack of urgency to sell for anything but a great/fair/pre-2008 price, it’ll probably be a bit before they sell:

– The Atlantic: How Bad Was July’s Plummet in [...]

Longer. Deeper. And Flat at the Bottom.

By Wahl, on August 6, 2010, at 10:41 am | Comments are closed

New unemployment numbers are out today. A quick recap from Calculated Risk:

Longer. Deeper. And flat at the bottom. Unfortunately that describes the 2007 employment recession.

This graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession, in percentage terms – this time aligned at the bottom of the recession (Both [...]

Don’t Hate the Player

By Wahl, on June 4, 2010, at 6:51 pm | Comments are closed

Hate the game.

From our good friend Matthew Lewis over at The Bullied Pulpit via a recent Pew Research study:

Very interesting, but logical correlation.

Mr. Lewis’ commentary: Process over Policy, Pundits vs Political Scientists

The Pew Research Study w/ more graphs and info: It’s All About Jobs, Except When It’s Not [...]

The Job Hunt

By Wahl, on May 23, 2010, at 8:22 pm | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

It’s a process…

From: Pearls Before Swine

One Of These Is Not Like The Other

By Wahl, on April 9, 2010, at 1:04 pm | Comments are closed

Jobs, please.

When You Dip, I Dip, We Dip

By Wahl, on March 15, 2010, at 9:22 am | Comments are closed

By most accounts, the trillion dollars worth of stimulus money is running out. And yet, our economy really isn’t coming back. That is why a number of economists warn of a double dip recession. Because if organic growth isn’t there, and the free money from Bush and Obama runs out, then the economy will [...]

Still There

By Wahl, on March 5, 2010, at 8:12 am | Comments are closed

I’ve posted this chart periodically over the last year. But it always help to have a little refresher when new jobs reports come out:

Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment fell in construction [...]

Say It Ain’t So

By Wahl, on February 12, 2010, at 10:20 am | One comment - (Comments are closed)

What do you do when you’ve been trapped in your DC apartment for days on end because of the Snowpocalypse/Snowmageddon and can’t make it to your worthless Georgetown Law classes? You read 1,000,000 word articles from The Atlantic, apparently.

And that is exactly what Steve has done. He forwarded me this uplifting piece this [...]

Stuff For Kids Who Can Read Good

By Wahl, on February 8, 2010, at 12:07 pm | One comment - (Comments are closed)

I always find too many informative political and economic articles to share, so I’ll select a few and throw them all in to one post of important stuff you should read to get your week started:

1. Maybe we shouldn’t be blaming our leaders for not being able to lead:

A thought-provoking read from [...]

Going Down for a Job Opp

By Wahl, on February 3, 2010, at 8:34 pm | Comments are closed

I’m this close to packing it up and moving down under to New Zealand (or is ‘down under’ exclusive to Australia?) to earn a living:

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A New Zealand teenager who says she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money did not break any laws but it might [...]