Financial and Economic Global Crisis
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Web tools for critical thinking - Harold JarcheA few years back, Dave Pollard wrote a post on critical thinking and it’s one that I’ve referred to a few times since. I think that real critical thinking is a key survival skill in our global, digital surround.
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Ask the Administrator - Largest Health Insurers Based on 2008 RevenueRevenue ($ in billions) Market Share Website $69.56 11.67% 2 WellPoint Indianopolis, MN $56.79 9.54% 3 Kaiser Foundation Oakland, CA $46.9 7.87% 4 Aetna Hartford, CT $25.45 4.28% 5 Humana Louisville, KY $24.6 4.11% 6 Health Care Service Corp. ...Dan Kimmel added 5 hours ago
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Critical Thinking - It's a survival skill we all need - Dave PollardWhat I think really needs to be taught is critical thinking as a defensive skill. We all think logically, but we can be fooled. Inadvertently or maliciously. If I were to design a Critical Thinking course it would quickly cover the basic cognitive skills, and provide some exercises for students ...
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Wary Employers Keep Jobless Numbers High : NPRA 10.2 percent unemployment rate is like a gut punch. It's just such a big number, a level of joblessness we haven't experienced here in the U.S. since the early '80s. This, even as the economy is actually growing again. But many employers just aren't ready to start hiring yet.
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Tarzan Found! | HumorMust see, Amazing new footage caught by passerby. Does Tarzan really exist?
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How Obama Can Convince Congress to Enact a Larger Stimulus, and Why He MustThe Administration's biggest economic mistake so far was to badly underestimate last January how bad the employment situation would become by Fall. As a result, it low-balled the stimulus -- settling for a plan that, while avoiding even worse job losses, didn't go nearly far enough. Obama has ...
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Mishel on double-digit unemploymentAfter rising for more than two-and-a-half years, the country’s unemployment rate crossed into double-digit territory in October with a jobless rate of 10.2%. This provides another sign of the severity of the current downturn, the very long road we face back to full employment and the urgent need ...
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At 10.2%, October’s unemployment is a wake-up callThough the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) now has GDP growing again, this morning’s Bureau of Labor Statistics’ October employment report found that the jobs situation nevertheless continues to worsen. Unemployment rose dramatically to 10.2% in October, the highest rate since ...
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Let A Hundred Theories Bloom - Joseph Stiglitz et alThe economic and financial crisis has been a telling moment for the economics profession, for it has put many long-standing ideas to the test. If science is defined by its ability to forecast the future, the failure of much of the economics profession to see the crisis coming should be a cause ...
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The Great Contraction of 2008-2009A popular view among economic forecasters and market bulls is that “the deeper the recession, the quicker the recovery.” They are right – up to a point: immediately after a normal recession, economies do, indeed, often grow much faster than usual over the ensuing twelve months. Unfortunately, ...
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