by Leroy Hurt | Oct 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via CSMonitor.com: China has edged out the US as the world’s biggest oil importer. The shift reaffirms China’s ballooning growth and middle-class demand for cars and other amenities. Meanwhile, the US has slogged through five years of post-recession...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a Paris-based rich-country think-tank, has just produced new research on adult literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills in 22 countries. Finland and Japan came top. The worst...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Chief Learning Officer: Research from the Federal Reserve shows that the share of middle-skill or middle-wage jobs in the U.S. has dropped from 25 percent in 1985 to just above 15 percent today. While middle-wage jobs have been on the decline for a number of...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Chief Learning Officer: According to Robert G. Smith, senior vice president of AMA, despite their familiarity with technology, millennials aren’t seen as having equal analytics savvy. So there’s a disconnect — the first element of news. Second, Smith believes...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: The key is the rise of the middle class consumer in emerging markets (EM). “Over the coming decades the spending power of the EM middle class – the ‘expanding middle’ – will cause tectonic shifts in global consumption,”...
