The great leader who regarded Reader's Digest as a research tool, for goodness sake. I could go on, but it hurts. Nonetheless, I have two children in college, am about to buy a home, have a retirement account in pretty good shape. Place your pupils, dear reader, on Shelley Coolidge's article to the right. Children are walking out of college and into jobs worth 40 grand a year.
Some companies are so desperate for high-tech hires, they raid the classroom before graduation.
Now flip to Page B3. Mortgage rates are falling, inflation has skedaddled, unemployment is lower than experts thought possible, the stock market has almost tripled this decade, and platform shoes are back in style. Open up Pages B6 and B7. Almost a third of the global economy remains tangled in a financial crisis, yet the impact here ranges from minimal to positive. Economists think the Asian meltdown could shave half a percentage point off US growth next year, but prices on consumer goods and mortgage rates will fall.