Ugly CRE charts | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
These charts are not scary. They are ugly.
A hat tip to Michael Panzner and his blog post of 1/6/2010 at Financial Armageddon for directing me to these charts.
I love charts.
EconomPic: ADP Jobs Down 84,000; Services Jobs Grow
If you click through to the original post on EconomPic you will see a tiny red speck as evidence for services jobs growth. Unfortunately, the copy here does not capture that tiny red speck north of the line.
Some might call this good news (see the tiny red blip upper right corner)
Texting may lead to improved health care | NewsOK.com
I learned how to text because my children text. There was a time when I thought this form of communications was silly. I was wrong. It’s how you use the technology that matters.
“Did you remember to take your Aricept today?”
Research has shown that up to half of all patients may fail to take their daily medicine properly, with forgetting being a top reason for nonadherence. So, at least in some cases, a text reminder may be all that a patient needs, says Robotham, who has encouraged the use of appropriate texting among pediatricians at Hopkins Children’s.
Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients – Bloomberg.com
The Mayo organization had 3,700 staff physicians and scientists and treated 526,000 patients in 2008. It lost $840 million last year on Medicare, the government’s health program for the disabled and those 65 and older, Mayo spokeswoman Lynn Closway said.
This is not political commentary. No one should be expected to run a business at a loss.
Facts are facts.
Average Income in the United States Will Continue to Drop in 2009
Median household income in the United States has been in a freefall over the past few years due to the “Great Recession”. In inflation adjusted dollars, the last time that the median household income in the United States was $50,303 or lower was 1997. This is a staggering drop that has completely erased all of the gains made in the beginning and middle stages of the decade.
2009 should be even worse, as many are expecting that median household income in the United States could drop as much as 5%. This would leave us with a median household income number of about $47,800. This would be the lowest such number, in inflation adjusted dollars, since 1995.
Survey: Employers Expect Hiring Uptick : NPR
Maybe it’s just my individualistic perspective but when I hear a news story touting:
Twenty percent said they plan to bring on more full-time staff in 2010.
my mind immediately says “80% are not”.
Reining in College Costs – BusinessWeek
In the “learning” paradigm, the teacher is not the expert provider of knowledge, but rather a guide who first specifies what students are expected to learn and then lays out pathways they can follow to meet the learning goals. The teacher becomes a supporter, a collaborator, and a coach for students as they learn to evaluate and gather information, test ideas, and explore their application to different issues and problems. Students begin to learn how to develop and pose their own questions and to explore alternative ways of finding and framing answers. So instead of working only to master the subject matter of a course, students are developing the skills to learn on their own. They no longer wait to be taught—they come to realize that, if they are to succeed, they must take a good deal of responsibility for their own learning.
Read this article written by Michael Bassis, President of Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. We need to rethink corporate training methods if you agree with Mr. Bassis’ paradigm shift assessment.
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