One of the best technology reads last week was a New York Times’ big Sunday article on the outsourcing of high-technology manufacturing The iPhone Economy. The piece is a really thorough examination of how high-technology product manufacturing in East Asia has not only resulted in jobs going there that would otherwise be here, but...
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Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer.
"Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail," he said. "That's your whole story right there. Hell, you don't even have to write the rest of it. Just write...
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Some very bright people are talking about how one might put together business ventures and a local currency that are completely network dependent. Such ventures can be categorized as Economy as a Service (Eaas) and the currency as a meta-currency. The wife was recently hit by the Facebook Deactivation Bug. Long backstory short, she...
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If we leave aside bullshit wedge issues such as gay marriage, etc. it seems reasonably clear that one of if not the overarching, meta-debate between (loosely) “progressives” and “conservatives” really comes down to an argument for what is the best way to get the American economy growing again. And that argument is: which is...
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So, let’s say you run a largish corporation. You have a large workforce comprised mostly of highly-skilled people with offices all over the place. You expect to continue growing the business, but many of these people work on projects with a duration of a few months to a few years. How do you cut...
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Nichole Gelinas at The National Review makes a couple of good points about how markets can help price oil production externalities. But this is nowhere near a comprehensive solution, nor is it any argument against other policies designed to influence demand for oil. Full Post Gelinas makes a good point. But this is hardly...
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Ezra Klein, writing for Newsweek nails what’s wrong with Wall Street. The problem for Tourre—and for Wall Street more broadly—is that they’re so intent on proving that what they did was legal that they can’t see that what they did was wrong. These are men (and they usually are men) of the market, and...
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RE: Absence. Yeah, yeah. I know. But there is this whole world out there away from the Intertubes, and it calls to me. And to cheapen this first post back from over a month away even more… I’m just going to link to another blog. Via Economist blog Democracy In America PAUL KRUGMAN says...
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Back in August, we covered an unexpected outbreak of honesty from the International Energy Agency regarding global oil supplies. At that time, we had the IEA Chief Economist admitting for the first time that most of the world’s largest oil fields were at or near peak production. This week more IEA people are going...
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