Posts Tagged ‘unemployment’

“You guard your hopes and you pocket your dreams. You’d trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.” –Billy Squier, “In the Dark” I was wet behind the ears. That whole summer of 1981 the produce manager and the main produce clerk would tell me how wet behind the ears I was every single early morning [...]

“Gonna get on the microphone down at Walmart. Talk about some sh$t that’s been on my mind. Talk about the state of this great nation of ours. People look to your left, yeah and look to your right…” — Ben Folds Maybe we would be better off putting economists and seasoned (small) business leaders in office. [...]

It was chaos. Inextricably linked, living, breathing, self-adapting chaos. Standing on the edge of a large metropolitan roundabout intersection in China a few years ago my wife and I witnessed trucks, busses, cars, bicycles and pedestrians navigate all the inputs and outputs of this large intersection at mind-bending speeds, while around the intersection buildings were [...]