Stats on The Gig Economy

Traditional stats are lagging tracking the gig economy. You know, UBER, Airbnb, Lyft and so on. So I found Mish, the great blogger, who recently tackled measuring this subject.

http://mishtalk.com/2016/03/27/how-big-is-the-gig-economy-what-about-permatemps/

http://mishtalk.com/2016/03/28/gig-economy-take-ii-entire-increase-in-employment-since-2010-is-in-gigs/

Housing Starts and Building Permits

Housing starts (well, technically, building permits) by US Metro areas can be found here.

I like how they include counties and smaller cities as well. Oh yeah - "they" are the US Census Bureau.

Here's the link to the main Census New Residential Construction Page. There is a helpful explanation of methodology and a few other categories like Quarterly Starts by Purpose and Design.

Business Passings: Andy Grove, CEO of Intel

All of our books about Andy Grove here.

Andy Grove was a Hungarian born refugee who joined Intel - one of the first companies that made the processors for computers. He eventually became the head. A fascinating classic business American success story. Read the books above for a glimpse of how Silicon Valley worked in the early days.

Freeters - Japan's Part Time Underclass

There's a growing underclass of part-time workers in Japan.  Called Freeters, they tend to be intelligent, educated university graduates from middle class homes, but cannot find fulltime positions.

Update: the original video I embedded has been removed but here's a link to all YouTube videoes on freeters.