Showing posts with label Leonhardt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leonhardt. Show all posts

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Work/life balance and your money

David Leonhardt, in the New York Times, looks at new survey on work/life balance and which careers provide the highest economic penalty for taking time off.  The current economy could change all of this.


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Friday, May 1, 2009

What Obama sees

It's impossible to emphasize enough how different our current President is from the last one. Regardless of policy, simply the ability to see the nation and the world through the lens of big ideas, and understand that we are "not in Kansas anymore."  That modernity, technology and the economic and social crises we face have put us at some kind of inflection point in the nation's history.  Obama touches on all of this, in a wide ranging, fifty-minute interview  with New York Times economics correspondent David Leonhardt.  That interview appears as the cover story in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine.  

My conversation with David Leonhardt about his impressions from that Obama interview: