The govt. jobs report this morning showed much fewer job losses than economists were expecting. Nonfarm payrolls fell -345,000 in May, vs. consensus of -520,000. As depicted in the chart above, you can see that the pace of job losses has slowed materially since it peaked in January.
I’m not sure which of Sarah Palin’s five colleges actually instructed her in the “principles” of Economics 101, but I’d think that someone who reads so many newspapers would at some point have discovered a coherent explanation of Keynesianism. Yes, this is the American press corps we’re talking about, but JFC, it’s not as if we’re asking her to understand how oil gets to market. Read the rest of this entry »
Email marketing is something that many online business owners use to promote their offerings and make money online. However, if you do the wrong things with your email marketing campaign, your subscribers will want to opt out of your list. This will leave you without a platform to effectively communicate with the people who have already shown interest in what you have to offer. What’s worse is that your online business will gain a bad reputation and people online will be less likely to trust you.
Between travel and parental visits, I neglected to mention New Hampshire’s legalization of same-sex marriage. So you probably already know about it. The key takeaway for the future is that the latest pro-discrimination strategy of making spurious arguments about religious discrimination is that it’s checkers against chess. As New Hampshire shows, it’s pretty easy to counter this by amending legislation to include protections against things the government wasn’t going to do anyway. Hence, victory with “compromises” that compromise nothing but are sometimes framed as compromises in a way that might even appeal to the Fred Hiatt set. Sometimes, having a poor quality of enemy is really helpful…. Read the rest of this entry »
