Calamity in the housing, mortgage, banking and insurance industries, combined with shrunken 401(k) retirement savings, creeping health care inflation, dwindling access to credit and greater job loss, have put pocketbook concerns on the political front burner.
R.I.P., free markets (1776-2008). I am exaggerating, a little, for dramatic purposes. Actually, my sense is that the free market hasn’t been truly free for more than a century, and, on balance, we’re marginally better off for it.
Wall Street ended a wild session with its best showing of the week after investors went in search of bargains among stocks devastated by seven days of massive losses.
Consumers are cutting back. So retailers are, too. Then there’s Von Maur. The upscale department store chain is entering the market in November with a 142,000-square-foot, two-level store in Overland Park.
The time to worry about what a noncompete agreement says is when you accept a job offer. By the time you leave a company, it’s too late.
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