In about a year it will be the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Weimar Republic, the nickname for post-WWI Germany and a moniker forever connected with the hyper-inflationary economy of Germany. That circumstance lead directly to the democratic election of Adolph Hitler and WWII. In 1914...

Immigration—everybody’s hot-button issue--and America is once again arguing across the metaphoric back-fence and having the very devil of a time trying to balance fairness and equity. All that intemperate rhetoric in a country that has become (within a single lifetime) anything but fair and wher...

The typical conservative leans back on his couch, meditatively stirs his Chivas and water with a pinkie and declares (with some considerable justification) "Well, it’s their own damned fault if they got in over their head. What the hell were they thinking?" People are indeed responsible ...

From Sunday's Washington Post, Barbara Ehrenreich writes a column that might better have been a WaPo series over the last 30 years or so that they championed and cheer-led the economic miracle. The Boom Was a Bust For Ordinary People By Barbara EhrenreichSunday, February 3, 2008 I t begins to sound ...

Many of your organizations may looking for ways to trim, cut, or in some cases chop your budgets, and may consider a headcount reduction as an answer.  Yes, eliminating a job or position is a way of reducing your budget, but it has some negative by-products.  There is a much less disruptiv...