Mexico touts progress in drug war, but death toll rises to 30,197 – CSMonitor.com
Mexico released figures this week showing that 30,196 people have been killed in drug-related violence over the past four years, with a record 12,456 killed from January through November, compared to 9,600 deaths in 2009 and 5,400 in 2008.
Note the fact these figures are coming from the Mexican government and are likely understated.
Surprise! IRS Audits Up 11% This Year
Read this wonderful post on how the Federal Budget deficit is getting reduced, one audit at a time.
According to the IRS, the agency audited 1,581,394 individual returns last year, up from 1,425,888 in 2009. Did the increased audits produce increased revenues? You bet. The IRS collected $57.6 billion in enforcement revenues in 2010, up from $48.90 billion in 2009. Enforcement revenues have grown dramatically from the $33.8 billion that was collected in 2001.
The Yawning of a New Era | workforce.com
America’s workforce is weary. Employees of all ages report feeling fatigued, stressed, burned out or depressed, brought down by a heavier workload, layoffs and an assortment of other adverse conditions workers feel they have little or no power to control.
The hamsters are starting to fall off their wheels.
All kidding aside, this is a serious management issue. So what’s a little fatigue. A plane crash here, a truck crash there right?
All we do is put risk on the books.
So what’s a little higher error ratio?
Too many scary charts to reproduce. Plus, in all fairness, you really should read Mish’s latest economic analysis from the source.
This is scary if you think about it enough.
I debated whether or not this chart deserved to be a scary chart. Obviously I decided it was scary enough. Despite the lower cost of some stuff, deflation overall is not a good thing.
Economist’s View: FRBSF: Disinflation – It’s Not Just Housing
Type 1 Diabetes Death Rate is Falling, But Not Fast Enough
When the researchers broke the mortality rate down by the time of diagnosis, they found that those diagnosed later had a much improved mortality rate. The group diagnosed in the 1960s had a 9.3 times higher mortality rate than the general population, while the early 1970s group had a 7.5 times higher mortality than the general population. For the late 1970s group, mortality had dropped to 5.6 times higher than the general population.
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