The jobs recession is here: Time to get to work - Janszen

[FRED]

Re: The jobs recession is here: Time to get to work - Janszen

This is the most interesting part of your post. I wish you develop this idea further in another article.

There is a long section in EJ's upcoming book The New New Deal (Penguin) the covers the topic. Stay tuned!

[gasull]

Re: The jobs recession is here: Time to get to work - Janszen

This may strike readers as counter-intuitive, but a recession is the best time to start a new business. You might think the opposite is true, because investors are freer with money and customers spend more during booms. On the other hand, talented labor is dear, fixed costs like rent are high, and competition is fierce. Companies that start in recessions tend to be well differentiated, with dedicated teams, and a powerful will to fight the odds. They are inherently stronger than the me-too companies you see form at the tops of economic cycles that pile into an already crowded market only to disappear in the next downturn. If you work for a company and you see a customer problem that day in and day out is ignored, start to write down a list of the things you'd do differently for that customer if you were running the show. Develop contacts with that customer, so if you are laid off and decide to start a company later you can approach your contacts for "advice" on your business idea. That first conversation may eventually turn them into your first customer, if they are willing to engage with you to refine your service or product idea. A second customer will follow the first, and within a few years you will have a business that's ready to take off when the economy turns around. That is how most entrepreneurs you have heard of have succeeded. Think you need a fancy business plan and venture capital to start a successful business? Nonsense. All you need is a good recession.

A recession is an opportunity. Don't miss this one.

This is the most interesting part of your post. I wish you develop this idea further in another article.

[Andreuccio]

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Actually, that sucker was 17 pages when downloaded. I just read the punch lines. Come on, I have a young family and pregnant wife! (And work ain't no cake walk right now.) I want it all packaged with a bow. Do you know how many crazy tomes Sapiens recommends? Hee-hee.

I won't even go into what trying to keep up with Rajiv's stuff is doing to my life at the moment.

Agreed, Sapien's must either be one hell of a speed reader or he's got Cliff Notes on some pretty obscure texts.

Still, I think you really are working too hard. This one's pretty easy. You're looking for one South American country and one Central American country. Start reading. When you've found one of each, stop. You're done.

Maybe no bow, but giftwrapped.

[Jay]

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C'mon, Jay. The article's all of 3 paragraphs, plus a concluding sentence. The title's even shorter than that. You're a bright fellow. You can do this.

Actually, that sucker was 17 pages when downloaded. I just read the punch lines. Come on, I have a young family and pregnant wife! (And work ain't no cake walk right now.) I want it all packaged with a bow. Do you know how many crazy tomes Sapiens recommends? Hee-hee.

I won't even go into what trying to keep up with Rajiv's stuff is doing to my life at the moment.

[Andreuccio]

Re: The jobs recession is here. Time to get to work.

Exactly my point. My comment was that the addition of the comments by bart, JK, et al is exactly the right way to introduce guests to iTulip concepts rather than by EJ putting them in the main body of the articles. Remember that the ratio of readers as iTulip members who are familiar with these concepts to guests who may not be is typically 400:1. Thanks again.

Shouldn't it be 1:400, not 400:1?

[Charles Mackay]

Re: The jobs recession is here: Time to get to work - Janszen

Thanks for letting me know, guys. Uploaded as a WMV file. Try it now.

Thanks, it works now!

Wasn't EJ's interview of Keen going to be posted at the end of the week?

[FRED]

Re: The jobs recession is here: Time to get to work - Janszen

it's broken.

Thanks for letting me know, guys. Uploaded as a WMV file. Try it now.

[metalman]

Re: The jobs recession is here: Time to get to work - Janszen

I should also note that my machines are running XP

it's broken.

[Charles Mackay]

Re: The jobs recession is here: Time to get to work - Janszen

Same thing happens to me running Windows XP, IE and Media player - The Keen thread freezes as soon as it opens.

I should also note that my machines are running XP

[FRED]

Re: The jobs recession is here. Time to get to work.

Actually, there are readers here, that only come to iTulip to think about it. I've found the comments on this thread illuminating. JK's observations, Bart's chart, Sapiens reference to, I assume, to the 21st Century version of the Chicago School of Economic fascism and EJs somewhat depressing reality check for employees in the US for the next few years. Never under estimate your readership or your subscribers willingness to bring your new readership up to speed.

Exactly my point. My comment was that the addition of the comments by bart, JK, et al is exactly the right way to introduce guests to iTulip concepts rather than by EJ putting them in the main body of the articles. Remember that the ratio of readers as iTulip members who are familiar with these concepts to guests who may not be is typically 400:1. Thanks again.

[Slimprofits]

Re: The jobs recession is here: Time to get to work - Janszen

Does anyone know what codec is needed to play the iTulip Any Media Player? I thought I had every codec in existence but the Steven Keene interview freezes both FireFox and Internet Explorer on more than one computer that I've tried it on. It initially asks for quicktime which I have but then freezes.. ????

Same thing happens to me running Windows XP, IE and Media player - The Keen thread freezes as soon as it opens.

[Charles Mackay]

Re: The jobs recession is here: Time to get to work - Janszen

Does anyone know what codec is needed to play the iTulip Any Media Player? I thought I had every codec in existence but the Steven Keene interview freezes both FireFox and Internet Explorer on more than one computer that I've tried it on. It initially asks for quicktime which I have but then freezes.. ????

[santafe2]

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I've just created a new chart with the normal U-3 rate, and replaced my original post with it... and hopefully that won't make it even more confusing.

Bart, I prefer my charts with all new hip hop lies or old school lies. When you mix them, I get very confused. Please compartmentalize all your graphical depictions of government fairy tales in the future. Thanks.

[santafe2]

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Going into it in each piece distracts from the main point, and anyway readers don't really want to think about it.

Actually, there are readers here, that only come to iTulip to think about it. I've found the comments on this thread illuminating. JK's observations, Bart's chart, Sapiens reference to, I assume, to the 21st Century version of the Chicago School of Economic fascism and EJs somewhat depressing reality check for employees in the US for the next few years. Never under estimate your readership or your subscribers willingness to bring your new readership up to speed.

[Andreuccio]

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Damn, I don't want the Hardy Boys, I want it served up to me on a silver platter!

The Economic Review... I don't want to slog through that, my brain is already cooked from this place. Well, at least it isn't solar eclipses and the occult.;)

C'mon, Jay. The article's all of 3 paragraphs, plus a concluding sentence. The title's even shorter than that. You're a bright fellow. You can do this.