I get a daily e-mail from Monster telling me what new jobs have been posted to its board in my location. I’m noticing that on any given day one-third to one-half of those jobs appear to be posted by “staffing consultants,” not the companies doing the actual hiring. Should one be bullish on the hiring …

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I remember buying “Private Investigations: The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler”. I’d never heard much of the band’s music, but I knew the group’s name and thought “Why not?” Imagine my surprise when this song came on and I realized NPR had been using it for one of its “buttons,” those little interludes …

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