Decrease in personal consumption, over spending, exorbitant imports, inflation, cyclical economy, high interest rates, sky high energy prices, trade deficit, consequent wars, subprime mortgage crisis, massive personal debts and debt trap, Clinton administration, Bush administration (or even Obama’s election promises?!!!!); who (or what) is to blame the reason for the recession, the worst ever in … Read more
I used to say the Internet is a plethora of information. A plethora of opportunities that it has made the deserving entrepreneurs super rich overnight etcetera, etcetera. While the advantages are many with the world wide web and search engines, we, medical transcriptionists, have a disadvantage. While searching the net for certain keywords, we face … Read more
We are at the doorsteps of a very bad economic slowdown with fears of its associated implications narrowing down to our wallet. Recession, economic downturn, slowdown, depression, slump, stock market crash, crisis, collapse, job loss, downsize, pink slips, bankruptcy, bad debt – all these have become the talk of the crowd. A negative atmosphere hangs … Read more
Preface Unless you live under a rock somewhere on Mars, you will be familiar with the term recession. It hits hard, both salaried persons as well as businessmen. However, there are people who don’t worry at all about the recession. Those without any debt! If they lost their income, they won’t lose their homes. They … Read more
Preface In the last week of September, World Heart Day reminded us to keep an eye on our BMIs. For the past 10 months, I’ve been working to reduce my BMI to the lean range of 18-22. I started the year at 80 kg, a BMI of 25.535, which is borderline normal or slightly overweight … Read more
Preface I remember my childhood days of learning to type some 25 years back on a clackety-clack typewriting machine. Literally one has to pound on the keys to get those impressions done on the paper, has to put some whitener to hide those mistakes or has to scratch the mistakes to powder; oh my good … Read more