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With so many companies cutting their rank and file workforces to the bone because of the tough economy, it seemed inevitable that some firms would eventually get to the fatty middle. Middle management that is. They get paid more than the rank and file, but they're not at the top of the corporate food chain. These factors create a precarious situation for middle managers, and things could get worse if the recession drags on. So, now is a good time for supervisors with one underling, or one thousand, to start making themselves indispensable to those folks in the corner offices. But how do you do that? Author Janet Banks provides her observations of middle management layoffs and why some supervisors were able to survive.

Will China overtake the United States as the world's biggest economy? It almost certainly will. China's economy is now only a fourth the size of the $14 trillion U.S. economy, but given plausible growth rates in both countries, China's output will exceed America's in the 2020s, Goldman Sachs forecasts. By itself, a richer China does not make America poorer. Indeed, because there are so many more Chinese than Americans, average Chinese living standards may lag behind ours indefinitely. By Goldman's projections, average American incomes will still be twice Chinese incomes in 2050.

Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid, but many of us take home bloated paychecks far beyond what we deserve. Below is a list of the 10 most overpaid jobs in the U.S., in reverse order, drafted with input from compensation experts:

China remains the most popular destination for foreign industrial investment in the world, attracting almost $83 billion last year. But a growing number of multinational corporations are pursuing a strategy that companies and analysts call "China plus one," establishing or expanding Asian bases outside China, particularly in Vietnam. A long list of concerns about China is feeding the trend: inflation, shortages of workers and energy, a strengthening currency, changing government policies, even the possibility of widespread civil unrest someday. But most important, wages in China are rising close to 25% a year in many industries, in dollar terms, and China is no longer such a bargain. Companies are using the "China plus one" strategy to mitigate the risks of overdependence on factories in one country.

American culture relentlessly celebrates youth. But in the corporate world, 80 is the new 50. Advances in medicine make a retirement age of 65 seem like a relic. Until recently, aging big-shot executives were generally happy to play golf, become ambassadors, or just sail away on their yachts. Today, not so much.

When a computer hardware company found $3 million dollars and their CFO missing, they called Ken Springer, the president of Corporate Resolutions, a business investigations concern. Mr. Springer, a former white-collar crime specialist at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, started Corporate Resolutions in 1991 in New York, and has expanded it to 25 employees and offices in London, Boston and Miami, with a fifth planned for Hong Kong in October. Most of his clients are private equity lenders and hedge funds that ask him to conduct management background checks at companies they are looking at, and to look into suspicions of wrongdoing at companies they hold stakes in. As layoffs increase, so does employee theft. And as loan defaults rise, so does the need for banks to track down the assets of borrowers. One out of every 20 job applicants screened last year had a criminal record.

It has been less than a week since the SmallCap MarketWatch introduced readers to our May profile, Orient Paper (OPAI). Our timing was impeccable as we seemingly caught the wave right before the ride up. At the time of our profile shares of OPAI were trading at $0.34 per share. Based on Tuesday's closing price of $0.48 per share our May profile is up a cool 41.1%. It has been a while since we've had such a quick winner.

What is the first thought or image that comes to mind when someone tells you they work for a "paper company". The answer for many of us is the fictitious Dunder Mifflin and its fearless leader Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell) on the hit tv show The Office. Between 7-10 million Americans tune into this hilarious comedy every week. Those that work in the paper business can now be proud that their profession is the subject of such wide entertainment appeal.

A 27 storey skyscraper being built in Mumbai by Mukesh Ambani, the richest person in India, could be the world's largest and costliest home with a price tag nearing two billion dollar, according to Forbes magazine. When the Ambani residence is finished in January, completing a four year process, it will be 550 feet high with 4,000,000 square feet of interior space. Mukesh Ambani was ranked as the fifth richest person in the world with a net worth of 43 billion dollars. Ambani heads India's most valuable firm Reliance Industries, an oil and petrochemicals giant.

It's been approximately three months since we first profiled Dussault Inc. (DUSS). During that time the company has been relatively quiet on all fronts but now it looks like things are heating up. On Monday DUSS announced that the Dussault Apparel line is now available in 10 new locations in Canada and the US (press release). In the US, the company's clothing line is now available at Balys in Los Angeles, CA, and at New York Moon, Grand Junction, Colorado. In Canada, the lines are now available in Vancouver, BC, at two Mens Club stores, (Metrotown and Park Royal Shopping Centres), at Club Annex, and at three Below The Belt locations (Robson Street, Richmond and Metrotown); in Nanaimo, BC, in Styles Clothing; and in Edmonton, Alberta, at Queue and Sofa.