Even as they hoard their most valued workers, companies can more readily shed temporary staff, who now account for nearly 3% of the workforce, up from 1.3% in 1990.

ECONOMIST: To cut or not to cut

You can do that (in a taxable account, of course) by making temporary exits and entrances.

FORBES: Mid-Cap Value Stocks For The Guggenheims

The government must set up a separate budgetary account for disaster reconstruction expenditures and receipts of temporary tax proceeds, to enable close public oversight and auditing.

FORBES: Of Numbers and Choices

For the moment, the researchers have got what they want, but the government has said that the amendment is a temporary measure, and will be reviewed annually to take account of progress in electronic record-keeping, anonymisation and encryption of data which might eliminate the need for identifiable information.

ECONOMIST: Patient confidentiality