Archive for September, 2010

Eight straight months of private sector job growth in 2010

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the unemployment and payroll numbers for August today. While the numbers still pointed to overall job losses, -54,000 jobs lost in August, the same as in July, they also showed the eighth straight month of a private sector job growth, a fact that President Barack Obama’s administration was quick [...]

Time to shorten the NFL season to 14 games

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

There’s quite a bit of talk about expanding the NFL season from 16 games to 18 games per team. the primary driver for the expansion talk seems to be that the league currently has a pre-season that consists of four games played overwhelmingly scrubs that aren’t going to play much or at all during the [...]