It Truly Is The Great Recession

A recent inforgraphic on “The Great Recession” over on Focus.com really puts things into perspective on how bad the Jobless Recovery really is. As the infographic begins, Americans are suffering the highest figures of unemployment since The Great Depression, and the worst part, there’s no end in sight. Employers are still intending to make do with what they have for as long as possible, even though job satisfaction is at an all time low.

Considering that it will take the US nine more years to recover the jobs lost during the recession at the current rate of job creation, it’s unlikely that the economy is going to bounce back quickly. The end of the recession is going to linger on and when the emergency benefits run out for the 4.04 M people on it, it’s going to be obvious that it truly is the Great Recession.

America and India Respond to Rising Food Prices

America: Let’s introduce S. 510, a bill so poorly designed that not only will it fail to increase food safety (as the FDA doesn’t have the budget to properly enforce it), but it will increase food prices even further as most small food producers, farmer’s markets, and organic growers in particular will not be able to afford to comply and go out of business (which decreases the food supply and increase prices).

India: Let’s open vegetable sales counters (IndiaEveryday.in) in an effort to make sure our own people can afford to eat despite the spiralling prices of essential commodities and vegetables (as it’s unconscionable that our own people can’t afford onions).

What response do you think is better?

Will This Be The Year That We’re Back in the USA?

With unemployment hitting all time highs in certain parts of the country, logistics costs still high, duties and taxes rising across the globe, disruptions affecting over 4/5ths of extended supply chains, and home-sourcing looking more-and-more attractive for many US-based enterprises, will this be the year that we all start singing Chuck Berry’s Back in the USA?

Happy Birthday, Wikipedia!

For some of us, it’s hard to believe that Wikipedia went online only 10 years ago today in the same month that saw the creation of AOL Time Warner and the launch of iTunes, which put Apple back on the map.

Where would we be without Wikipedia?

Sitting in the library waiting six weeks for an inter-library loan? (Those of us who did graduate degrees more than 10 years ago remember this, and not too fondly might I add!)