Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I’ve seen some truly remarkable pieces of architecture while writing for LittleThings — especially tiny houses. Followers of the Tiny House Movement will be quick to tell you that a small space doesn’t mean a lack of options and possibilities. In fact, some tiny houses can be more impressive than huge mansions. I’ve seen tiny…
You know Keurig’s machines. The company’s squat black coffee brewers have become fixtures in offices, hotels, and homes around the country, as have garbage cans heaped with the spent plastic pods they use. Purely on the strength of those machines — or more accurately, the relatively expensive pods they use — Keurig transformed its parent…
I was talking to someone who works at one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept that distracted everyone for a few years while they settled into their roles as slightly different ways to text. He mentioned something, offhand, while…
And so after that epic 5.0% Q3 GDP print, driven largely by Obamacare, the payback begins, and the annualized Q4 GDP print, which came in at nearly half the previous quarter run rate, or 2.6%, is about to tumble by another ~0.5% following the just released trade data for December which saw a 17.1% surge…
Photo Outside the Anthem headquarters in Indianapolis. Anthem said it detected a data breach on Jan. 29, and that it was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Credit Darron Cummings/Associated Press close shareTools Anthem, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, said late Wednesday that the personal information of tens of millions of its…
Employers cut 53,041 jobs in January as the energy industry slashed positions in the face of falling oil prices, Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported. Layoffs hit nearly 2-year high in Jan: Challenger – Yahoo Finance.
If you have been a regular reader of mine, you are probably familiar with several things about me: First, you know I have been a steadfast bull during the entire rise in the stock market. It isn’t that I am such a genius or especially lucky. I just would rather not guess when the bull…
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer5:38 a.m.Feb. 5, 2015 In this Jan. 12, 2015 photo, a workman moves along a commercial construction site in Philadelphia. The Labor Department reports its first estimate for productivity in the fourth quarter of 2014 on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. worker productivity went…
More people sought unemployment benefits last week, but the number of applicants remained near historic lows in a positive sign for job growth. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications rose 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 278,000. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell 6,500 to 292,750. That average has plunged 15 percent…
U.S. productivity falls in fourth quarter; labor costs rise Workers prepare outgoing shipments at an Amazon Fulfillment Center, ahead of the Christmas rush, in Tracy, California, November 30, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Noah Berger WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. nonfarm productivity braked more sharply than expected in the fourth quarter, while unit labor costs rebounded after falling…