Calculated Risk: Unemployed over 26 Weeks, Diffusion Index, Seasonal Retail Hiring
I love charts. Unfortunately the news is still bad.
Scary Chart of the Day – 1/9/10
Scary Charts of the Day – 1/7/10
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.
Remote Underwriting Positions NOT
http://www.virtualvocations.com/jobs
I was online this morning at http://www.virtualvocations.com and entered basic search terms for life insurance, underwriter, etc.
Don’t waste your time with this job site. There is nothing there for underwriters or insurance professionals.
I didn’t even make the web addresses click-able links.
Scary Chart of the Day – 1/6/10
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 For Health
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.
COBRA Subsidy Extension – Update from Kiplinger 1/4/09
Read a Book a Week – 2009 Results
1.0 per week in 2009.
Experience matters. Now I know why from the following NYT article.
Better pattern recognition, significance recognition, and faster solutions.
I hope you kept some of your older underwriters on the payroll.
Adult Learning – Neuroscience – How to Train the Aging Brain – NYTimes.com
Recently, researchers have found even more positive news. The brain, as it traverses middle age, gets better at recognizing the central idea, the big picture. If kept in good shape, the brain can continue to build pathways that help its owner recognize patterns and, as a consequence, see significance and even solutions much faster than a young person can.
Listen and Learn – Where The Jobs Will Be
Scary Chart of the Decade
Mayo Clinic AZ Ceases to Treat Medicare Patients
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.
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