A few months before the bottom fell out of the economic world, AIG Direct had acquired 21st Century Insurance. Since I’m a [...]
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Amidst another day of layoff announcements (almost 72,000 announced today, Bloody Monday)– Home Depot, Nextel/Sprint, Caterpillar (!),Deere, ING, just to name a few, I received a letter that caught my attention.
Well, we passed our centenial. This week’s Blogging Boomers Carnival host is VaBoomer.com and with such an exciting week behind us, you can be sure these posts are worth catching up with! Enjoy.
With markets imploding, 50 plussers are losing jobs by the droves while seeing their nest eggs devastated. When I think of the economic journey we are faced with, regardless of demographic, and the responsibility that is laying on Barack Obama’s shoulders, I get the image of the mythological Greek Sisyphus endlessly pushing the [...]
The hurt keeps on coming. This morning Microsoft announced their 2nd quarter results and with the global economy still limping along, put plans in place to lay off 5,000 staff over the next 18 months, included 1400 who got their pink slips today.
Always go to the source: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/jan09/01-22fy09Q2earnings.mspx In light of the [...] ‘Baby Boomers Get Smart about Digestive Health’ The National Association of Baby Boomer Women (NABBW), the only association devoted to addressing issues concerning the 38-million boomer women demographic [and I'm one of them], announces its first 2009 teleseminar, “Get Smart about Digestive Health.” The FREE teleseminar is on Wednesday, January 28th at Noon [...]
Mixed into the excitement of today’s inauguration, were two technological items of note that may have gotten swept a bit under the carpet. The first is the launch of Barack Obama’s Presidential website at http://www.whitehouse.gov/ Obama’s team have created the first dynamic Presidential website with a tone very much in keeping with the [...]
When the moon is in the 7th house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars…
It may not be THAT aligned, but I find it rather appealing that our Blogging Boomers Carnival celebrates our 100th carnival episode on a national holiday (MLK) and the day before the most historic presidential inauguration in the US. Does [...] Do you have to be at the office or on the road tomorrow? Don’t despair — if you have access to the internet, you can watch this historic inauguration live and online at CNN: http://www.cnn.com/live/ Plus CNN has partnered with Facebook, so if you sign up, you’ll be able to join millions of [...]
Apparently, along with many of you, I’ve got a heck of a lot on my mind lately. There are so many things I want to share — reviews of new movies coming up (a little bit of escapism never hurt anyone), much, much more on the auto industry, perspective on the economy, new technologies [...]
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