Many companies are reporting annual turnover percentages in the high teens to the low 20s. You might expect that in the fast-food business, but not for people making salaries north of $60,000,

The current tax structure is fairly perverse. Companies are in a lose-lose situation. They're criticized if they leave earnings abroad, and they're penalized [through taxes] if they bring them to the U.S.

There are no... composite metrics out there that told a longer-term or more systematic story.

The U.S. government's commitment to continuing to pump out these graduates began to drop off in 1970s. The space race had been won. There was a recession in the late 1960s. The country was hurt by the oil crisis in the early 1970s. And the country had moved away from the attitude of the 1960s that you could solve the world's problems with government spending.

It's like we've been presented with four fancy sports cars we'd all love to own. But now it's not clear which one to pick.

If this ruling stands it could effectively destroy the ability of companies to set up businesses for which they contract out workers.