Part-Time Jobs

Lots of Americans had summer jobs when they were teenagers or when they were in college. It was nice to have a little extra cash around for fun summer activities. However, just because you’ve graduated from college and have a full-time job doesn’t mean that you can’t take a couple...

ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN), TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI), Labor SMART (OTC: LTNC) and other firms in the $29 billion demand labor sector of the staffing industry continue to post strong results. The $100 billion staffing industry in the United States has prospered as a result of the Great Recession. Due...

A recent article in the Financial Times with the ominous headline, "Hope for faster global growth dashed," reported on the anemic international recovery from the Great Recession. While bearish for many sectors, the Financial Times piece is actually bullish for the staffing industry. Concerned...

Family offices are entities that invest and perform other financial duties for wealthy families. The ultimate objective for every family office is profitable long-term investing, the same as it should be for every individual. Stocks in the staffing sector provide growth,value, and income...

To say that it has been a good year for the shareholders of TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI), a company in the $29 billion demand labor segment of the $100 billion staffing industry in the United States, would be an understatement. For 2013, the stock price of TrueBlue has soared more than 70 percent,...

In John Grisham's short story “Casino”  Bobby Carl Leach, the richest and most ostentatious man in Ford County, Mississippi, reads every newspaper he can to find investing opportunities. While Leach would focus on notices of auctions and foreclosures, drive by in his flashy Cadillac and check...

Non-Farm Payrolls rose faster than expected in June as teenagers began to take summer jobs. The unemployment rate remained flat in the month while manufacturing payrolls slumped. Stocks gained as bonds and precious metals sold off on the news as markets began to price in more or sooner tapering of...