Demographics, Business: Gen Z grads unprepared for work life
Survey claims new Gen Z workers lack work experience and basic job skills.
Climate, Economy, Education, Etc: Shhhh-don’t tell anyone but much is getting better
Improvements | Gapminder Ask any journalist and they will tell you their purpose: Or as Poynter now writes it: This is interpreted as finding something that someone views as wrong…
Climate: Proponents of “degrowth” say must grow their field of study first
Science has become a joke. Paper in Nature advocates economic degrowth, but first, we must give more funding and grow the degrowth complex.
Climate: To save the climate, we must end economic growth
To save the planet, we must end economic growth. Experts say.
Economy: When the government is the economy
In major countries, the government is now 25% to nearly 50% of the economy?
Yes: “Will mortgage rates ever fall to 3% again?”
3% mortgage rates were a very unusual market in recent years. For much of the past 40+ years, interest rates were 7% or greater.
Economy, so horrible the unemployment rate falls to 3.7%
The unemployment rate falls to 3.7%. Everything is awful.
Economy: “Experts” at a loss to explain post pandemic economy
Or something – I’ll file this under the Follow Up category: From the recession that didn’t happen, to the relationship between unemployment and inflation, to the reason that inflation took…
Climate: We must resort to “climate lockdowns”
Speaker at WEF says Covid failed to rally the world, climate change is too complex for people, so next up is the topic of "water". And to consider climate lockdowns.
Demographics: Oregon state economists now planning “zero population growth” scenarios
Oregon State economists now using "zero population growth" scenarios for the state's economic planning. The fertility rate is 1.39 and outbound migratioin has recently been high.