January 2001 NewWork News Web Tips

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: 2001 Economic Forecast (Monday, 1/1/01)
Here is a 2001 Economic Forecast from Financial Publishing Services, which provides marketing information to the financial services industry.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (Tuesday, 1/2/01)
The W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research is a private "think tank," has a famous pedigree, and is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Economists with Web Pages (Wednesday, 1/3/01)
Does your favorite economist maintain a web site? If he's Adam Smith, probably not. However, John Irons of Amherst College can help you find contemporary Economists with Web Pages.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Selected Interest Rates (Thursday, 1/4/01)
Here are some selected interest rate statistics from the Federal Reserve that can help you track interest rates, if, like Alan Greenspan, you like lots of statistics for recreational bedtime reading.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: PriceWaterhouseCoopers on E-business (Friday, 1/5/01)
If you're already running a-business, you may be discovering that you can use all the help and good advice you can get. PriceWaterhouseCoopers is a consulting firm that wants to help. Here's their E-business site.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Why America needs a tax cut (Saturday, 1/6/01)
Here's a book from the Heritage Foundation that argues for a major tax cut. Somebody named Steve Forbes wrote the forward (Remember him?). It isn't easy to tell when the book was written, but it may not make too much difference, because the arguments are fairly standard. People subscribe to these arguments for a variety of reasons. Some genuinely fear government's tendency, because of the special power monopolies of the state, to grow and consume everything in sight, sooner or later tipping balances to such an extent that basic liberties are threatened, while others believe that society is best-served if as much of its resources are in private hands as possible. Others, though--sometimes the wealthy and highly privileged--find arguments against collective or community action convenient because they want to be free of social restraint and do whatever serves their own personal interests, even if at the expense of their neighbors. This sometimes amounts to a "backdoor" way of supporting anarchy, although some of these persons do not seem reluctant to employ the power of government to enforce their own self-interest. However, the fact that some people focus their pathologies on political issues and personalities, while others adopt ideologies that simply express their selfishness, does not mean that there are no real political issues that we should not try to "psychologize" away. Partisans often try to put the worst face on their opponents' positions, but serious people are not required to limit their thinking to caricatures and stereotypes.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Who wants to be an economist? (Sunday, 1/7/01)
Could you win a million if the questions were all about economics? How would Regis do? It's time to play Who wants to be an economist? Incidentally, the biggest winner so far on the hit TV show appears almost certainly to be Regis. After complaining mildly on the David Letterman show about his salary, ABC quickly re-negotiated, and, according to trade press reports, agreed to pay him $20 million yearly when the show was still on only three times per week. Now that it's on four nights each week, it's reasonable to assume that Regis' paychecks have undergone some sort of retrofit. Reports are that his contract for the daytime show extends through next August too, so, even though he's very busy, he's probably as surprised as anyone to find that his long career has peaked during his mid- to late-60's. He hasn't always enjoyed good times. After being a regular on network prime-time TV, he once was reduced to doing local sports on a Denver TV station. Regis is well-regarded in the business, where he is known to be mostly what his fans perceive him to be--a decent gentleman who has managed to be entertaining and fun without sacrificing his dignity.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: IPEDS College Opportunities Online (Monday, 1/8/01)
There are a number of major education portals on the web through which you can locate colleges that may fit your requirements. IPEDS College Opportunities Online is from the National Center for Education Statistics at the United States Department of Education.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Saludos Web (Tuesday, 1/9/01)
Saludos Web is a career, jobs, and education portal of special interest to Hispanics.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Young Biz (Tuesday, 1/9/01) (Wednesday, 1/10/01)
Young Biz is a financial site for 10- to 17-year olds.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: I/O Psychology Resource Center & Playground (Thursday, 1/11/01)
Dr. Patrick McCarthy of Middle Tennessee State University maintains the I/O Psychology Resource Center & Playground for both beginners and professionals in the field. Incidentally, "I/O" doesn't stand for "input/output" in this case, but, instead, for "industrial/organizational." I/O psychologists consult and do research on issues of direct importance to business and other kinds of work organizations. In fact, while many Americans assume that to be a psychologist is to be a psychotherapist, psychology is basically a science rather than an applied field; i.e., more like anatomy or physiology than medicine. Still, there are many psychologists who work primarily in the application of research-based knowledge to the solving of practical problems. Interestingly, the first applied psychologists worked in the I/O area, not clinical settings. In fact, the very first attempts to apply psychology to practical problems was in advertising. Later, the famous "Hawthorne studies" during the 1920s marked the beginning of psychology applied to issues having to do with organizational functioning, job performance and productivity, and so on.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Fed in Print (Friday, 1/12/01)
Fed in Print offers an index to all of the Federal Reserve's economic research documents and comes from the Fed in San Francisco.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: JobHuntersBible (Saturday, 1/13/01)
Richard Bolles, famous for his best-selling career book, What Color is Your Parachute?, is your tour guide on the JobHuntersBible site, a good starting point if you need advice or resources to assist your career development.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: AsiaSource: Business and Economics (Sunday, 1/14/01)
Here's information and perspective from the Asia Society on economic life over a vast and increasingly important part of the world.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Braintrack (Monday, 1/15/01)
Braintrack comes from Switzerland and claims to be the "world's most complete education index," with references to more than 5,000 higher education institutions across many countries. We don't know how complete it is, but it may be more so that it may first appear. For instance, it doesn't list North Dakota among the states, but, if you do a search on Jamestown College, which is located in Jamestown, North Dakota, you will find it.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bankrate (Tuesday, 1/16/01)
Maybe April 15th hasn't appeared on your personal horizon yet, but tax time will show up fast. Bankrate offers some tax-saving tips.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: BitLaw (Wednesday, 1/17/01)
BitLaw may give you access to nearly everything you'll ever want to know about technology-related law. The site contains 1,800 pages of information.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: AIDS Economics (Thursday, 1/18/01)
AIDS Economics comes to you from the World Bank and focuses on the economics of the worldwide AIDS pandemic.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: WorldSkip (Friday, 1/19/01)
There are considerably more countries in the world than there used to be. For instance, what was once one country called the Soviet Union is now 15 countries. If you're a business person, recreational traveler, or just curious, WorldSkip has information for you about each of the world's 220 countries.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Inaugural History (Saturday, 1/20/01)
George W. Bush becomes the 43rd American president today. Here's a history of presidential inaugurations from the PBS Newshour television program staff.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: RSI Support Group (Sunday, 1/21/01)
It appears that repetitive stress injuries have become more common as a greater proportion of the workforce must make the same movements hundreds of thousands of times during a brief period, something for which the human body is not well-designed and which homo sapiens sapiens have not had to do during their 40,000-year-plus history until the past few years. Here's the RSI Support Group from Los Angeles.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Financial Education for College Students (Monday, 1/22/01)
Citibank may be able to help students learn how to be wiser and more proficient in financial management. Here's a financial education site for college students which includes free educational materials.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Work & Family Connection (Tuesday, 1/23/01)
Work & Family Connection is intended for managers and work-life professionals. Some information is free, while special reports must be purchased.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Find a Career for You (Wednesday, 1/24/01)
Find a Career for You is an interesting site that provides practical information about 180 career possibilities which can help you determine what fits you best.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: EmploymentSpot (Thursday, 1/25/01)
EmploymentSpot is a major portal that can help you locate most information of interest relating to employment issues, including many other sites.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Bigwigs.net (Friday, 1/26/01)
If you're a high-income executive, or would like to be, Bigwigs.net may be the job site for you. You can post your resume for nothing and also search for suitable job openings. The site specializes in positions that pay $100,000 yearly or more.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: SmartMoney (Saturday, 1/27/01)
Here's tax help from SmartMoney magazine.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Nieman Foundation Seminar with John Kenneth Galbraith (Sunday, 1/28/01)
Here are excerpts from a 1998 Nieman Foundation seminar led by Harvard Emeritus Professor of Economics, John Kenneth Galbraith. He warns about stock market speculation and shares some anecdotes.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: How much is that worth today? (Monday, 1/29/01)
How much is that worth today? allows you to compare the purchasing power of currency in the U.S. or the American colonies from 1720 to the present.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: ipo.com (Tuesday, 1/30/01)
Now that some companies are even trying to get rid of the "stigma" of a dot-com URL, the bloom has certainly faded from Internet startups, and the overall economy is slumping, it means that initial public offerings are dead, right? Nope, not at all. There are still IPOs, and ipo.com wants to tell you about them. What will their stock be worth? Your guess is as good as ours. Your guess may be as good as theirs too, but, then again, they say they've done their home work.

Today's NewWork News Web Tip: Centre for the Economics of Education and Training (Wednesday, 1/31/01)
What are the economic consequences of learning? Since 1992, the Centre for the Economics of Education and Training at Australia's Monash University has been studying those very issues.

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