Topic: The Great Depression

The Economy: Don't Hit the Reset Button

Let's not call our wobbly progress from the brink of a global financial meltdown a "recovery." Why? Because we are doomed by our collective mindset to plunge into more financial crises as soon as we recover, says author and CEO Dov Seidman. The problem is we continue to function according to a 20th-century operating system whose catastrophic bugs have been exposed as critical flaws. READ»

Richard Florida's Creative Destruction, Spatial Fix and The Great Reset

What doesn’t kill cities during this crisis will make them stronger. This is Richard Florida’s diagnosis in The Great Reset, which picks up where his last foray into pop economic geography, Who’s Your City? left off. READ»

Prospects for Job Growth

My latest project, now in the hands of the editors, is called 2011 Career Plan. The idea is that as America moves out of recession, 2011 is a good time for your next career move, so make a plan and get moving! Of course, this is ...READ»

Whither the Global Economic Recovery?

The recovery in the US (and global) economy is hale and hearty. Amidst deep economic gloom, I had written in April 2009 that the US and world economies would show strong signs of recovery by July 2009 (see here and here). Ensnared in ...READ»

Where's the Water

As I was walking the unseasonably hot 90-degree streets in New York the other day, rushing between my meetings, I was struck by a thought. I spend a lot of time hearing about how bad the economy is and wondering why, if the depth of ...READ»

Baby-Boomer Senior Entrepreneurs

Throughout corporate America daily water cooler gossip often involves talk of retirement. Perhaps you recognize such retirement conversations, the day many dream to sail off into the sunset resting at that peaceful gated community or ...READ»

Delphian Senior has Article Published in Statesman Journal

An essay written by Delphian School senior and Academic All-Star, Joseph Kim, was recently published by Salem's Statesman Journal. The article discusses what Joseph would do if elected Governor of Oregon. Here's the article:If I were ...READ»

Senior Entrepreneurs Business Startups

Throughout corporate America daily water cooler gossip often involves talk of retirement. Perhaps you recognize such retirement conversations, the day many dream to sail off into the sunset resting at that peaceful gated community or ...READ»

Bear Market Is Firmly Intact

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose from 150 to 680 during the years 1940 to 1960. Even with huge tax burdens, investors wealth increased five-fold over 20 years. By contrast, we have just exited a lost decade, receiving no long-lasting benefit from a top tax rate of 35%, and we may be entering another difficult decadeREAD»

Be An Angel; Help an Entrepreneur

Stealthmode Partners has been working with the Kauffman Foundation since 2003, as a regional center for its Fasttrac Entrepreneurial Education program. On Friday, Jan. 29, the Foundation issued a large report ...READ»

Treasure Hunters Roadshow

Treasure Hunters Roadshow and GoldREAD»

Job Dissatisfaction

Last week, the Conference Board released a report on the job satisfaction of American workers, based on a survey of 5,000 households. They found that only 45 percent of respondents were satisfied with their jobs.You might expect that ...READ»

Worst Recession Since the Great Depression Affecting Lawyers Too

Alan Insul, a Los Angeles lawyer limiting his practice to business, corporate, and real estate cases, offers some candid commentary about his law firms dealing with new economic realities. It’s tough out there, even for lawyers. ...READ»

New Year’s Resolution – Cleaning the Slate

For many, 2009 was a year that forced many companies to overcome significant obstacles in order to keep the doors open, the recession being the primary culprit. And while 2010 may not see as much economic bloodletting, no one that ...READ»

CityCenter's Architect "Dream Team" Builds the Next Vegas

The architects behind Las Vegas' CityCenter gathered after today's press conference to answer some questions about the legendary project.READ»

• Silver, Ice, and Bouncy Superheroes: Las Vegas' CityCenter by the Numbers

Reasons to Be Charitable in a Tough Season of Giving

Amid all those candles and evergreens, baked goods, freely pouring cocktails (and the promise of sneaking in a tax deduction) we humans are inclined to give to those less fortunate this time of year. But there isn't much incentive ...READ»

How an Economist's Cry for Ethical Capitalism was Heard

Not long ago, economist Noreena Hertz lived at the lefty margins of her field. But her (widely ignored) prediction of the credit crisis and her call for a more evolved form of capitalism have suddenly put her at the center of the universe.READ»

How Much To Retire? All American’s are faced with this question “How Much Money do I Need to Retire?”

The whole concept of retirement is fairly recent, an experiment that began with the creation of Social Security in 1935.READ»

Technology: Mobile Apps Are Where It's At

Travel is changing even as travel has slowed. But actually that is typical for economic downturns — recessions are times when the pressure to innovate becomes most critical. Some of our greatest technological strides were made ...READ»

Want To Stay Healthy After Retirement? Keep Working

Since the Great Depression, a commonly held perspective on the good life is that we can all look forward to retirement, when we didn't have to work any more. We would be more relaxed and healthier away from the stresses of work. There's a couple of flaws in that argument. For one thing, retirement, like pensions, was an invention of the depression, intended to deal with the problem of unemployment. Prior to the depression the concept of retirement didn't exist. And for the most part, people are viewing retirement in a very different way today. AARP in the U.S., report from a survey done in 2008 that 70% of workers plan to continue working past their retirement age.Now recent research questions the assumption that not working anymore will improve your health. READ»

Should We Reinstate Glass-Steagall?

Under the Glass-Steagall Act, when enacted in 1933, regulators protected bank depositors from stock market speculation and other investment banking activities. Over time, we also generated enough wealth to end the Great Depression, create the largest middle-class any nation has experienced in history. We were able profitably expanded the aviation, automobile, and pharmaceutical industries.READ»

What We Should Learn from the Great Depression and Current Crisis- Robin Trehan

Hundreds of thousands of people are losing their jobs in America and other places around the world. This isn’t just the U.S.’s crisis, it’s the world’s crisisREAD»

Master of Crisis

How do you deal with crises? Are you fearful, negative, and panicked? Or are you cool calm, and collected? This blog post will explore the psychology of crisis using the current economic crisis as a laboratory.READ»

Coaching Challenge - Clients Over 50's Fear of No Future

I've been executive coach and mentor to some high powered entrepreneurs and executives over the years. And today, more than ever, they fear becoming invisible if they change positions or sell out.READ»

Are You Bailout, Bankrupt, Great Depression — or Reinventing Yourself?

  Not everybody was depressed in the Great Depression. There will be victors and thrivers from our own rough economic times. What are you doing to make sure you are one of them? Are you waiting to be bailed out of your life, your ...READ»