My Musings

  • Bankers’ Hours

    A quickie post before the weekend… So, the New York Times‘ business newsletter, The DealBook, had an interesting article about the junior bankers rebelling against the banking industry’s crushing work schedule. Back when I started working, bankers in investment banking or related to Wall Street always had long hours but they were well compensated for…

  • The Thumb on the Wage Scales

    “Walmart announced last month that it was raising pay for some of its lowest-wage workers. Investors responded by pummeling its shares, sending them down by more than 6 percent on the day.” “What is Work Worth”, New York Times Dealbook, Kevin Delaney, March 20, 2021. This quote came from a business newsletter that I get…

  • CDC is disappointing

    Or maybe it’s Socrata… This week has been disappointing, not just the CDC. First, on a minor note, a recipe that I pulled from a blog, which sounded so enticing, turned out to be disappointing. Either I did something wrong or the recipe is just not to my taste. But the recipe really sounded like…

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    The 4th Surge?

    I haven’t done this is a while so let’s see where we stand with this coronavirus thing. First, it looks like continents around the world are undergoing renewed surges, from frightening so, based upon their almost vertical rise. You can see that Europe, Asia and South America appears to be undergoing an alarming rise, so…