Off to see the wizard...
Some of us who Aren't In Kansas Anymore were happy to watch The Wizard of Oz on TBS over the weekend. Twice.
Sunday's Buffalo News Business Today section front accidentally picked up the theme with stories about
Brains:
- Region has the brains to build upon - David Robinson/Buffalo's Business
The Buffalo Niagara region, for instance, does a good job of producing college graduates. The nearly 14,000 people who graduated in 2006 from local colleges and universities with bachelor's degrees or above was more than double the graduates produced by the typical U.S. metro area. It was good enough that Buffalo ranked 26th among U.S. metro areas.
But our work force isn't loaded with a heaping portion of people with degrees in high-value fields, like computers, mathematics and engineering. And because it's easy for people to move, the percentage of workers in the Buffalo Niagara region with bachelor's degrees is actually a tick below the 25 percent national average.
Heart:
- City landlords profit by doing right - Samantha Maziarz Christmann/The Buffalo News
But there is money to be made in an ethical way in such a market, experts said, for those willing to do things the right way. And doing things right involves a lot more work than just buying low and selling high.
Courage [maybe too much]
- Stocks are hot again, but are they too hot? - Rachel Beck/The Associated Press
Consider the very thing that has boosted the market. The U.S. government has spent nearly $1 trillion to stimulate the economy and the Federal Reserve has maintained a policy of keeping interest rates near zero.
Those will disappear as the economy's health improves, potentially halting the bull market by taking away what has been its crutch — sources of cheap and plentiful money.
And, [in a backwards sort of way] Home:
- Continental's long good-bye in Elma - Matt Glynn/The Buffalo News
Now the end has arrived, on the schedule that Continental had forcast. Production stopped at the Jamison Road plant early this month, said Sue Frederick, a Michigan-based spokeswoman for Continental, whilch is headquartered in Germany.
-- George Pyle/The Buffalo News
