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Retailers usher in holidays with deep discounts Shoppers begin heading to stores across the country on ‘Black Friday’ Updated: 7:27 a.m. ET Nov. 25, 2005 NEW YORK - Bargain shoppers woke up before dawn to head to the nation’s malls and stores Friday, the official start of the holiday shopping season, hoping to snap up early bird specials on items, from toys to digital music players. In an improving but still challenging economy, merchants are hoping for big crowds to set a positive tone for the entire holiday season. read on...   I ask myself, what are the root causes of a "challenging" economy...I could come up with a miriad of speculative thoughts, as an economist, and still not hit the nail in the head. I know there are other economists out there, smarter, brighter, wealthier and better educated than I am asking themselves the same question... As a behavioral science, Economics will never, in my estimate, be able to catch up with what the term full employment eco...

I just had to blog this. These simple rules from Susan will not only let you go a long ways in business, but life in general... http://sbinfocanada.about.com/od/customerservice/a/custservrules.htm 8 Rules For Good Customer Service Your Guide, Susan Ward From Susan Ward, Your Guide to Small Business: Canada. FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! Good Customer Service Made Simple Good customer service is the lifeblood of any business. You can offer promotions and slash prices to bring in as many new customers as you want, but unless you can get some of those customers to come back, your business won’t be profitable for long. Good customer service is all about bringing customers back. And about sending them away happy – happy enough to pass positive feedback about your business along to others, who may then try the product or service you offer for themselves and in their turn become repeat customers. If you’re a good salesperson, you can sell anything to anyone once. But it wil...

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You are 'Latin'. Even among obsolete skills, the tongue of the ancient Romans is a real anachronism. With its profusion of different cases and conjugations, Latin is more than a language; it is a whole different way of thinking about things. You are very classy, meaning that you value the classics. You value old things, good things which have stood the test of time. You value things which have been proven worthy and valuable, even if no one else these days sees them that way. Your life is touched by a certain 'pietas', or piety; perhaps you are even a Stoic. Nonetheless, you have a certain fascination with the grotesque and the profane. Also, the modern world rejects you like a bad transplant. Your problem is that Latin has been obsolete for a long time. What obsolete skill are you? brought to you by Quizilla

Immigrant Resource Center in a Bind Saundra Amrhein St. Petersburg Times (Florida) November 11, 2005 Copyright 2005 Times Publishing Company A school that offers free English classes to adults might shut down if it can't come up with the money to apply for a zoning change. SEFFNER - In their countries, they were dentists and business people. But here in this breezy yellow brick house off Parsons Avenue, they are students seeking a path out of manual labor. At the Multicultural Resource Center, more than two dozen adult immigrant students gather four mornings a week to study English in a house turned into a language school and computer lab. Another 80 are on a waiting list. But the popular school, which was started in the late '90s, might be shut down next month unless directors come up with $3,500 to apply for a zoning change. The county sought the change after a neighbor complained. For many with night jobs or schoolage children to care for, the free morning classes are li...

Need a hand or two? It comes a time when things get kicked around a bit, and reevaluation follows. This post's aim is to let you know that I am ready willing and able to engage in practical and income generating ventures . If you like what you have read over the months here at Economics made simple and feel you could use my experiences, knowledge or just need an extra hand to handle whatever it is you or your company is in need of, drop me a line and let me know how I can help. I can provide references, a resume or whatever complementary information you might need from me to engage in a fruitful and productive win-win relationship . Thanks for reading. Se habla Español tambien... Technorati tags: work , errands , jobs , win-win

On Gratitude by Richard C. Bayer, Ph.D. If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. -Mark Twain We should all learn gratitude if we want to be genuinely happy. Gratitude is most certainly a virtue; and a virtue is a positive habit of character that helps one to act in a reasonable and constructive way. The full exercise of this virtue involves three steps. One first recognizes the need for gratitude as a response to a favor; one then should express gratitude in word; finally one should express gratitude in deed. In this way gratitude comes to full fruition and brings no small amount of pleasure to all parties concerned! Recognition of the Need for Gratitude Humility is a virtue integral to gratitude. We cannot recognize the need for gratitude without it. People who are puffed up with their own accomplishments and who do not see how dependent they are on other people and (...

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier "Here lies in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." It is a fitting place and a focal point to honor American veterans, but as General George S. Patton, Jr., reminded us, "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." Indeed. Technorati tags: veteran , war , life , living

I was thinking about what could I possibly say of my own, at this my " Economics Made Simple " blog. I thought and I thought and it did not take long before I came up with the idea that it is time to give credit, where credit is due. First of all, if it would not have been for Blogger.com , I would not have been able to create not only this, but other few blogs I have expressed myself with. The first one in the list is " Life and Living For Real ". It is a blog basically about my thoughts, but it is also a blog to allow you, the reader to perhaps grab onto a post that you can relate with and perhaps help make your life a little better as a result of having come across it. I know, you say, but you just want to benefit your ego and yourself by writing about you. And my answer is, well, maybe that is the case, it was not my intention to create more value for my own ego than the intention of having you relate to my issues and causes and thereby make a friend or two in t...

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To all my fans, readers, subscribers, lurkers, enemies, and friends... It is getting better day by day, as the title suggests, and I atribute the improvement to a variety of factors: God (the God of my understanding never ever gives up on me in spite of myself! LOL) My Wife... the closest thing I will ever experience to God on this earthly plane of existence My friends...Those afar and those near. Those at phone call length and those at email or comments length My Spiritual advisors My internal and external supports, ie, prayer, meditation, introspection, family and friends in general... So, to all of you if you were included in the list above... A BIG BIG THANK YOU , AND BLESSINGS TO ALL OF YOU!

I had a rough one today! I don't know...I think it is in the air...It is really catching up with me... Not that I am th eonly one, and not that things are not any more difficult for you. But today I am feeling the weeks and months of all this stress that we are all experiencing out there as a result of what is going on in the world. I just had the thought that, perhaps th eguy that wrote Revelation is not too wacked out, and that perhaps I ought to pay a little closer attention to that book to have some discernment. I do trust God. I trust the God of my understanding. And somehow today I really can feel that I (or my household) don't want to be left behind... Technorati tags: feelings , God , Profecies , Revelation