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Survival Kit: How to Sell Almost Anything On Amazon and EBay (New York Times)
The online marketplaces eBay and Amazon once seemed like surefire places to make extra money or to build an online retail business. It’s not quite so simple anymore.
The sites are crowded with sellers, and new third-party marketplaces are cropping up all of the time. And the rules change frequently. EBay angered many longtime sellers in [...]
Recession Is Inspiring Many To “Get Back To The Country” (Wall Street Journal)
In June, 40-year-old Shane Dawley and his 36-year-old wife, Rhonda, uprooted themselves and their four boys from their suburban Atlanta rental home and bought an old five-acre farmhouse in Ogdensburg, Wisc. Their goal: Flee the rat race and adopt a more self-reliant lifestyle amid the troubled economy.
While Mr. Dawley, who had worked at a parking [...]
Still On The Job, But At Half The Pay
The dark blue captain’s hat, with its golden oak-leaf clusters, sits atop a bookcase in Bryan Lawlor’s home, out of reach of the children. The uniform their father wears still displays the four stripes of a commercial airline captain, but the hat stays home. The rules forbid that extra display of authority, now that Mr. [...]
America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs. Barely Out Of Their Teens And Making Millions
For our fifth annual roundup, BusinessWeek readers nominated a record number of young entrepreneurs. Meet the 25 most impressive
Welcome to our fifth annual roundup of the country’s most promising young entrepreneurs. Before we get started examining the new batch, consider this question: Who is more likely to start a business: A college student or a [...]
Tight Job Market Inspires Joe Seekers To Get Creative
At a time when one job posting can attract hundreds of applicants, the unemployed are doing everything they can to stand out. There’s the man who walked the streets of Manhattan wearing a sandwich board that read: “MIT Grad for Hire.’’ A Connecticut woman rented a billboard along Interstate 95 to advertise her eagerness to [...]
Biden says ‘Everyone Guessed Wrong’ On Jobs Number
STORY BACKGROUND: President Obama warned America that unemployment would rise above 9% unless the Stimulus was passed • As of May unemployment is at 9.4% and some predict it will go to 11% before peaking • Only 5% of the Stimulus money has been deployed.
Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that “everyone guessed wrong” on [...]
America’s Best-Paying Blue-Collar Jobs
It’s a hard time for almost everyone right now, but it’s especially hard for workers who don’t have a college education. In 2008 the unemployment rate was 9% for people with less than a high school diploma, 5.7% for high school graduates, 2.8% for college graduates and 2% for people with doctorates. Those numbers are [...]
Some projects Raise Question: Where’s the Stimulus?
As President Obama moves to accelerate the flow of federal funds intended to rev up the economy and energy efficiency, public officials are voicing concerns about the merit of some plans.
It is a six-mile stretch of guardrail near a manufactured lake in a desolate patch of the Oklahoma Panhandle. There’s little reason for anyone to [...]
STIMULUS JOB WATCH: Ins and Outs of Landing a Government Job
Finding out about government jobs may seem tricky to the uninitiated.
As with the private sector, the best place to look is online. For most federal jobs, you can research open positions and download applications through the government’s official site, USA Jobs; career sites like Yahoo! HotJobs; or specialty sites like Federal Jobs Net.
However, the process [...]
Get Ready For Inflation And Higher Interest Rates
The unprecedented expansion of the money supply could make the ’70s look benign.
Rahm Emanuel was only giving voice to widespread political wisdom when he said that a crisis should never be “wasted.” Crises enable vastly accelerated political agendas and initiatives scarcely conceivable under calmer circumstances. So it goes now.
Here we stand more than a year [...]
