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Health-care occupations are a great growth industry, and they tend to be more secure because a lot of health coverage comes from insurance policies. Governments are being impacted by this recession because it's so severe, but on the whole, government-related jobs tend to be more secure, particularly jobs that have to do with law enforcement and education. People have to send their kids to school no matter what the economic conditions are. Post-secondary education tends to be a pretty secure place to be too. People will ride out recession by going back to school. And there...
...industries in big cities are those that are sensitive to the economy, like finance, retail, manufacturing. Plus, a lot of the cities on that list are state capitals. State-government workers tend to be a little bit more secure than the rest of us. And a lot of state universities are located in capitals...
...Wealthy parents aren't completely on their own when it comes to teaching their kids about money. Private banks are increasingly offering programs to educate the scions of high-net-worth customers in the finer points of financial management. "People tend to assume that if you have wealth, you have knowledge of wealth," says Sebastian Dovey, managing partner at Scorpio Partnership, which in August helped Swiss bank UBS roll out Dialogue, a new financial-education service. But having money and being savvy about it are "not directly linked," he says. Another such program is Citi Private Bank's annual NextGen...
...past eight years, tax cuts have been the favored means of pumping up the economy. There's much to be said for putting spending power in the hands of hundreds of millions of Americans rather than in those of a few bureaucrats, but there is a catch. People tend to save part of their tax rebates. In 2001 about two-thirds of the $38 billion mailed out to taxpayers was spent within six months. It looks as if the spending percentage will be smaller for this year's $95 billion in rebates...
...that's another important ritual. Former Presidents tend to rise to the occasion when the call comes from the Oval Office, even if the caller is an adversary. It is an act of patriotism and perhaps pity by men who, knowing what the job entails, are uniquely positioned to help. Obama will take office with at least this advantage: he will have four predecessors with very different skill sets to call on. It's by no means certain who would be the most useful, since the history of these ex-Presidents is full of plot twists. There's Jimmy Carter...