Archive for May, 2009

Has The Recession Ended?

The question I have been hearing a lot lately is if the recession is over.  This recession has been quite hard on almost everyone, so knowing when it has ended is a very valuable piece of information.
I personally would love to see the recession over and a return to the good times during the boom [...]

Finance

Economy Bandwagon

With the economy apparently starting to recover from the recent failure of the banking industry; I have been looking back at my experiences and trying to figure out how to best achieve some success by learning from others mistakes.
Lesson One
I think the first lesson I will be taking home from this recession is that people [...]

Business

Google’s Goats

In what has to be the most awesome and yet insane thing I have read Google has decided to go totally natural and cut their lawn using goats.  Yes its not a misprint, goats.
According to the official Google blog:
This spring we decided to take a low-carbon approach: Instead of using noisy mowers that run on [...]

Random Stuff

Ethics in Business

I was reading an wonderful opinion piece in The Star.  You can read it here if you like.  Its all about ethics in journalism and how in our current economy the journalists need to be more ethical.
Without ethics, there is no difference between being a journalist and posing as a journalist.
This has to be the [...]

Business

The First Rule of Business

You are all excited, finally you will be able to achieve financial independence and throw off the chains of your day job.  Things are going great you are making tons of money and life couldn’t be better.  Then along comes Big Brother Government to remind you that your big dreams come at a price.  A [...]

Business