Isn't that an oxy-moron? The recovery has begun? Tell that to the millions of people out of work for months if not years.
"The United States economy has lost more jobs than it has added since the recovery began over a year ago." http://nyti.ms/bHbYcI
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Senators Who Gave Us 15 Million Unemployed Want to Deny Them Benefits
By Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
It is amazing how people in Washington are so forgiving -- of each other. We have close to 15 million people unemployed and more than 8 million people under-employed because the folks managing our economy were incompetent.
In spite of the efforts of economists and policy types to portray the cause of the economic collapse as being complicated, it wasn't. It was really really simple. Prior to the downturn the economy was being driven by an $8 trillion housing bubble. This led to a boom in residential construction. (A separate bubble in commercial real estate led to a boom in non-residential construction.) The equity generated by the housing bubble also led to a surge in consumption, with the saving rate falling to almost zero at the peak of the bubble.
It was inevitable that the bubble burst. Bubbles do that. They lead to an over-supply and eventually we run out of suckers willing or able to pay bubble-inflated prices for houses. The collapse caused the economy to lose $1.2 trillion in annual demand from the private sector. Annual construction spending fell back by close to $600 billion and consumption fell by roughly the same amount as a result of the loss of housing wealth.
There is no mechanism that allows the economy to easily replace this much demand. Hence we were guaranteed a severe downturn, without massive amounts of spending by the government.
For the rest of the article go here: http://huff.to/d2myQi
It is amazing how people in Washington are so forgiving -- of each other. We have close to 15 million people unemployed and more than 8 million people under-employed because the folks managing our economy were incompetent.
In spite of the efforts of economists and policy types to portray the cause of the economic collapse as being complicated, it wasn't. It was really really simple. Prior to the downturn the economy was being driven by an $8 trillion housing bubble. This led to a boom in residential construction. (A separate bubble in commercial real estate led to a boom in non-residential construction.) The equity generated by the housing bubble also led to a surge in consumption, with the saving rate falling to almost zero at the peak of the bubble.
It was inevitable that the bubble burst. Bubbles do that. They lead to an over-supply and eventually we run out of suckers willing or able to pay bubble-inflated prices for houses. The collapse caused the economy to lose $1.2 trillion in annual demand from the private sector. Annual construction spending fell back by close to $600 billion and consumption fell by roughly the same amount as a result of the loss of housing wealth.
There is no mechanism that allows the economy to easily replace this much demand. Hence we were guaranteed a severe downturn, without massive amounts of spending by the government.
For the rest of the article go here: http://huff.to/d2myQi
Friday, July 16, 2010
Never stop questioning
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
-Albert Einstein
-Albert Einstein
Friday, July 9, 2010
TheGreat Leaders Conference is coming together! 10.7.2010
The Great Leaders Conference will honor well-known CEOs as Great Leaders in Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Advocacy, Social Media, and Innovation. The event will raise awareness for CSR, and demonstrate how business leaders use their social influence to give back. The Conference will shine a light on the accomplishments of these great CEOs, and inspire other business leaders to initiate socially responsible programs.
The Great Leaders Conference is a CSR event. Proceeds from the Conference will fund 15 libraries for Room to Read, providing books and learning environments for 50,000 children in some of the poorest regions of the world.
The GLC is an invitation-only event for C-Suite and Senior Executives from across all industries.
I am honored to have the opportunity to work for BRANDfog in developing Talent for the Great Leaders Conference, NYC. www.brandfog.com
The Great Leaders Conference is a CSR event. Proceeds from the Conference will fund 15 libraries for Room to Read, providing books and learning environments for 50,000 children in some of the poorest regions of the world.
The GLC is an invitation-only event for C-Suite and Senior Executives from across all industries.
I am honored to have the opportunity to work for BRANDfog in developing Talent for the Great Leaders Conference, NYC. www.brandfog.com
Thursday, May 13, 2010
World M.S. Day 5.26.2010
Why World MS Day?
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, often disabling disease. It is one of the most common disabling neurological conditions amongst young adults in the northern hemisphere. Over 2,000,000 people in the world have MS. The aims of world MS day are to raise awareness and mobilise the global movement
How can I help?
The focus for World MS Day this year is employment. You can take our employment and MS survey (we will release the results on 26 May 2010), take part in an MS society activity, organise an activity, or donate.
http://www.worldmsday.org/home
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, often disabling disease. It is one of the most common disabling neurological conditions amongst young adults in the northern hemisphere. Over 2,000,000 people in the world have MS. The aims of world MS day are to raise awareness and mobilise the global movement
How can I help?
The focus for World MS Day this year is employment. You can take our employment and MS survey (we will release the results on 26 May 2010), take part in an MS society activity, organise an activity, or donate.
http://www.worldmsday.org/home
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
How it's Done in other Countries
Health Care is not just for the Lucky or the Wealthy
Plenty of countries get health care right: http://bit.ly/cqZuPx
Plenty of countries get health care right: http://bit.ly/cqZuPx
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
MS Awareness Week is March 8-14, 2010
National Multiple Sclerosis Society wants you to move it! MS Awareness Week is March 8-14 and there are so many ways to move it toward a world free of MS!
http://tinyurl.com/y9l5tq8
http://tinyurl.com/y9l5tq8
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Using CSR To Attract (and keep!) Millenial Workers
This is re-printed from Helping Hand Rewards
http://tinyurl.com/yaptqyy
by Hinda Incentives
The unconventional is slowly becoming conventional.
According to an article by The Economic Times, more young entreprenuers are opting for less conventional career paths, looking to pursue social missions using for-profit business models. Many people agree that younger entreprenuers are a model for necessary change in how we do business. Not only making money, but helping others and creating better sustainability in the process (also known as social enterprises). These business ideals are becoming more and more mainstream with Generation Y and Millenial workers. It’s the ideal that business is no longer just about making money but making the world a better place in the process.
There are several other like-minded workers that have a passion for sustainability but without the ability to pursue their own private venture. What makes this sort of talent choose which organization they want to work for? For these folks, an organizations involvement in social responsibility will have a huge impact on how they ultimately choose (and more importantly remain with) an employer. How a company gives back, whether it be through volunteer time, money, or using fair trade products as corporate gifts, influences a person’s view and/or loyalty toward that organization.
How are you using social responsibility to maintain employee engagement and loyalty?
http://tinyurl.com/yaptqyy
by Hinda Incentives
The unconventional is slowly becoming conventional.
According to an article by The Economic Times, more young entreprenuers are opting for less conventional career paths, looking to pursue social missions using for-profit business models. Many people agree that younger entreprenuers are a model for necessary change in how we do business. Not only making money, but helping others and creating better sustainability in the process (also known as social enterprises). These business ideals are becoming more and more mainstream with Generation Y and Millenial workers. It’s the ideal that business is no longer just about making money but making the world a better place in the process.
There are several other like-minded workers that have a passion for sustainability but without the ability to pursue their own private venture. What makes this sort of talent choose which organization they want to work for? For these folks, an organizations involvement in social responsibility will have a huge impact on how they ultimately choose (and more importantly remain with) an employer. How a company gives back, whether it be through volunteer time, money, or using fair trade products as corporate gifts, influences a person’s view and/or loyalty toward that organization.
How are you using social responsibility to maintain employee engagement and loyalty?
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
What You Put Your Attention On...Grows Stronger in your Life: Nathan Myhrvold, inventor
Nathan Myhrvold, inventor
In Nathan Myhrvold's world, mosquito repellent is so old-fashioned.
The inventor, former Microsoft Corp. executive and CEO of Intellectual Ventures is developing a prototype device that would create walls of lasers that are impenetrable by malaria-causing mosquitoes.
Myhrvold demonstrated the technology at the TED Conference and said lasefortresses could surround health clinics in the developing world.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/16/ted.people/
In Nathan Myhrvold's world, mosquito repellent is so old-fashioned.
The inventor, former Microsoft Corp. executive and CEO of Intellectual Ventures is developing a prototype device that would create walls of lasers that are impenetrable by malaria-causing mosquitoes.
Myhrvold demonstrated the technology at the TED Conference and said lasefortresses could surround health clinics in the developing world.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/02/16/ted.people/
TED2010: Ten fascinating people you've never heard of:
Temple Grandin, autistic professor
Temple Grandin sees her autism as a gift, not a disability. The professor at Colorado State University, who has become a prominent animal rights activist, spoke at TED about how people's brains work in different ways -- and how that's something that should be appreciated, not stigmatized. Grandin, for instance, thinks in pictures, "like Google for images," she said.
She also grabs hold of details, a brain function she feels could help politicians.
"I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world," she said. "We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff." One of her biggest real-world accomplishments, she said, was that a mother recently told her that her autistic child had gone to college because of Grandin's inspiration.
Grandin's life also is the subject of an HBO film.
Temple Grandin sees her autism as a gift, not a disability. The professor at Colorado State University, who has become a prominent animal rights activist, spoke at TED about how people's brains work in different ways -- and how that's something that should be appreciated, not stigmatized. Grandin, for instance, thinks in pictures, "like Google for images," she said.
She also grabs hold of details, a brain function she feels could help politicians.
"I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world," she said. "We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff." One of her biggest real-world accomplishments, she said, was that a mother recently told her that her autistic child had gone to college because of Grandin's inspiration.
Grandin's life also is the subject of an HBO film.
TED2010: Ten fascinating people you've never heard of: Philip Howard
A partner in the New York-based law firm Covington & Burling, Philip Howard is a crusader against the excesses of his own profession. Howard, author of "Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law," gave a blistering talk at TED about how "the land of the free has become a legal minefield."
He cited the Florida school district that banned running at recess as an example of how "people no longer feel free to act on their best judgment" for fear of getting sued. "People are acting like idiots," he said. "For law to be a platform for freedom, people have to trust it."
Howard pushes for policy changes in health care, education and other fields through an organization he founded, Common Good, which describes itself as "a non-profit, non-partisan legal reform coalition dedicated to restoring common sense to America."
He cited the Florida school district that banned running at recess as an example of how "people no longer feel free to act on their best judgment" for fear of getting sued. "People are acting like idiots," he said. "For law to be a platform for freedom, people have to trust it."
Howard pushes for policy changes in health care, education and other fields through an organization he founded, Common Good, which describes itself as "a non-profit, non-partisan legal reform coalition dedicated to restoring common sense to America."
TED2010: Ten fascinating people you've never heard of. 1. Esther Duflo, poverty economist
A 37-year-old MacArthur "genius" award winner, and professor at MIT, Esther Duflo sidesteps the grand armchair debate about whether charitable aid to poor countries does more harm than good. The French economist has been a champion of using random trials, like those used for prescription drugs, to test whether some aid policies work in the real world.
Such tests have shown, for example, that giving a kilo of lentils to a family in India to get them to immunize a child against disease sharply increases the rate of immunizations. The same approach can be used to study the merits of giving out free bed nets to fight malaria and to examine ways to get children in developing countries to go to school.
Such tests have shown, for example, that giving a kilo of lentils to a family in India to get them to immunize a child against disease sharply increases the rate of immunizations. The same approach can be used to study the merits of giving out free bed nets to fight malaria and to examine ways to get children in developing countries to go to school.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Wall St. Weighs a Challenge to a Proposed Tax
"President Obama urged the financial lobby to stand down when he introduced the tax proposal last week: “Instead of sending a phalanx of lobbyists to fight this proposal or employing an army of lawyers and accountants to help evade the fee, I suggest you might want to consider simply meeting your responsibilities.”
What a concept. Meeting your responsibilities.
What a concept. Meeting your responsibilities.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Hello 2010 !
I am so happy to see you, 2010. You are all nice round numbers, evenly divisible.
2010, you look optimistic to me.
2010 will be the beginning of the decade - I hope - of honesty. No more trying to rip each other off. No more lies. Just tell the truth to one another. Talk. Tell. Truth.
I am happy to see you, 2010. I know you won't let us down.
Speak Truth to Power.
As Joseph Campbell says...Follow Your Bliss. Do Good for Others.
2010, you look optimistic to me.
2010 will be the beginning of the decade - I hope - of honesty. No more trying to rip each other off. No more lies. Just tell the truth to one another. Talk. Tell. Truth.
I am happy to see you, 2010. I know you won't let us down.
Speak Truth to Power.
As Joseph Campbell says...Follow Your Bliss. Do Good for Others.
Goodbye to the 2000's Good, Bad, Ugly "The Big Zero"
Let's start with The Good
-I fled to the Right Coast and reunited with Family
-dropped my son off at Rutgers University, where after 7 years of Higher Education, he earned a JD
-met my wonderful husband
-advanced my career to Director level, helping to run a 300-employee construction company
-got to meet David Sedaris in person (thanks to Ronnie)
-bought a house
-acquired the most amazing and wonderful daughter-in-law
-adopted my Bichon, Dolly
-went to Italy
The Bad
-witnessed 9/11
-failed to stop the beginning of Iraq war, failed to defeat GWB in term 2, and the war escalation in the latter part of the decade
-lost a house
-lost a job, twice
The Ugly
-stood by my man as he lost his job and home
-thought that Enron was the worst thing that could happen to the US economy (after 9/11)
-was a witness to the near collapse of the entire US economy due to the snakes on Wall Street and a thing they invented called Credit Default Swaps
Op-Ed Columnist
The Big Zero
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: December 28, 2009
Let’s bid a not at all fond farewell to the Big Zero — the decade in which we achieved nothing and learned nothing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/opinion/28krugman.html
-I fled to the Right Coast and reunited with Family
-dropped my son off at Rutgers University, where after 7 years of Higher Education, he earned a JD
-met my wonderful husband
-advanced my career to Director level, helping to run a 300-employee construction company
-got to meet David Sedaris in person (thanks to Ronnie)
-bought a house
-acquired the most amazing and wonderful daughter-in-law
-adopted my Bichon, Dolly
-went to Italy
The Bad
-witnessed 9/11
-failed to stop the beginning of Iraq war, failed to defeat GWB in term 2, and the war escalation in the latter part of the decade
-lost a house
-lost a job, twice
The Ugly
-stood by my man as he lost his job and home
-thought that Enron was the worst thing that could happen to the US economy (after 9/11)
-was a witness to the near collapse of the entire US economy due to the snakes on Wall Street and a thing they invented called Credit Default Swaps
Op-Ed Columnist
The Big Zero
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: December 28, 2009
Let’s bid a not at all fond farewell to the Big Zero — the decade in which we achieved nothing and learned nothing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/opinion/28krugman.html
Friday, October 16, 2009
BethGiordanoAssociates is a Medical Device Executive Search Firm
"Beth Giordano Associates is an indepedent, woman-owned small business.
Beth Giordano is a seasoned recruiter and career counselor."
I am currently sourcing and interviewing candidates for Engineer positions for a Fortune 500 Medical Device company.
Please email your resume to: BethGiordanoAssociates@gmail.com
Thank you and Good Luck in your search!
Beth Giordano is a seasoned recruiter and career counselor."
I am currently sourcing and interviewing candidates for Engineer positions for a Fortune 500 Medical Device company.
Please email your resume to: BethGiordanoAssociates@gmail.com
Thank you and Good Luck in your search!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Who imagined Obama was possible?
I did. I could imagine and hope that Obama could be The Leader of The Free World. But just barely. Who can imagine a health care system where everyone is covered ? It's hard to imagine but it can happen. You have to make it happen. Watch: http://tinyurl.com/p2fw96
What are YOU doing to help us ALL get health care coverage?
If YOU have health care coverage but your mother or father or sister or daughter does not, what are YOU doing to see to it that Health Reform passes? Call the the RNC and tell them to stop blocking reform. Phone: 202.863.8500
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Your health care is already rationed
For those of you who say you don't want a universal health care system because care will be "rationed" I will be the first to inform you that pharmaceutical treatments are already rationed.
To wit:
"The US private insurance companies ration high cost drugs through co-pays and coverage caps. Biological and other high cost drug are often classified as “level 4” with little or no reimbursements. The result is that doctors must limit patient access to one high cost drug at a time without knowing if the one they picked would be effective."
http://tinyurl.com/nx6asb
Write to President Obama and tell him we need Health Care Reform now. Do not wait until you get your pink slip. You need to do this now, today. Stop what you are doing and email: http://tinyurl.com/lzo8y6
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/ tell him to support HR 676
or call:
White House Comments: 202-456-1111
White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414
To wit:
"The US private insurance companies ration high cost drugs through co-pays and coverage caps. Biological and other high cost drug are often classified as “level 4” with little or no reimbursements. The result is that doctors must limit patient access to one high cost drug at a time without knowing if the one they picked would be effective."
http://tinyurl.com/nx6asb
Write to President Obama and tell him we need Health Care Reform now. Do not wait until you get your pink slip. You need to do this now, today. Stop what you are doing and email: http://tinyurl.com/lzo8y6
http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/ tell him to support HR 676
or call:
White House Comments: 202-456-1111
White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414
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- Beth
- Greater NY Area, NY/NJ, United States
- I am an executive recruiter with 10 years experience in corporate recruiting and human services.
