January 27, 2017
NEW YEAR, NEW PRESIDENT, NEW DIRECTION – BUT DO NOT BE MISLED by headlines of rosy ‘Recovery’ or imagine that the new Administration will be able to reset today’s economic malaise. To begin with, the 4.6% claimed Unemployment rate, like... Continue
Weekly Report 17-05
January 19, 2017
“NO MATTER HOW IMPROBABLE, THE EVENT MOST LIKELY TO HAPPEN is the opposite of whatever the Davos consensus is.” Davos, Switzerland has hosted the World Economic Forum for 40 years, a conference of high-power business, banking & political leaders who... Continue
Weekly Report 17-04
January 11, 2017
“THE RELENTLESS MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY has brought us to a point where machines & software are not just outworking us, but starting to outthink us.” Tesla’s latest software enables a driver to see two cars ahead on the road and... Continue
Weekly Report 17-03
January 6, 2017
A GENUINELY FUNNY RECAP OF 2016: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/dave-barrys-year-in-review-trump-and-the-hideous-monstrosity-that-was-2016/2016/12/29/17c84a14-b7d6-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html?utm_term=.74fe5ec308c4&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1 NEW 2017 CALIFORNIA LAWS TO BE AWARE OF: (1) Immigration Protections: Employers are subject to a $10,000 penalty for requesting more documents than the federal I-9 forms demands, failure to honor documents that... Continue
Weekly Report 17-02
January 3, 2017
WHAT DO 2017 AND THE NEAR FUTURE, HOLD IN STORE? FOR WORK CULTURE: Gradually Artificial Intelligence will transform the essence of human culture, and have major adverse impact on jobs. As AI systems “teach us to trust machine intelligence... Continue