“America, in the face of our common dangers; in this winter of our hardship let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brace once more the icy currents. An endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s chirdren, that when we were tested we refused to let [...]
Andy Grove has a plan to test the viability of retrofitting US autos into plug-in hybrids fashioned along the lines of GM’s Volt design. He suggest testing this on 1 million cars at a cost of about $10 billion mainly due to the continued high cost for batteries ($10,000 per car). He is also pushing [...]
All Americans can be proud that the country we love has taken a giant leap forward with the election of Barak Obama. And African Americans should truly rejoice with his victory. Not that victory in the civil rights movement is at hand, but that the ultimate glass ceiling has been broken. Not everyone will agree [...]
This video is worth a few minutes of your time. The Generation WE movement is the largest generation in history, they are independant – politically, socially, and philosophically – and are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world. Check it out.
The McCain – Clinton Gas Tax Holiday is a farce and voters are beginning to realize this. Of course, Obama has been correctly outlining the problems all along. There are numerous problems with this approach even if the money would trickle into the hands of the consumers who most need it and therefore spend it [...]
Another high profile company going public has decided to maintain control while selling a majority of the economic stakes in the company to the public. This time it is Al Gore as a founder of Current Media. I certainly agree, the company’s shareholders have a right to decide the control structure they want to [...]
This week’s Sunday news programs were chock full of election experts sharing some interesting comments and many that were less so. My favorite was Dan Rather’s depiction of Hillary Clinton’s closing comments at the Tuesday night Austin debate as the best statements of the campaign. Surprisingly, earlier in the day, Meet the Press demonstrated that [...]
The excellent series on the History Channel, 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, continues to be very educational and quite entertaining. Watching these 10 events, I feel compelled to add and question if perhaps other unexpected events would be in my top 10. Their events are: Massacre at Mystic Shays’ Rebellion: America’s First Civil War [...]
or overstepping the boundaries of government? Which of these best describes the recent “Healthcare for All” bill supported by an overwhelming majority of the Massachusetts Legislature (154 to 2 in the House and 37 to 0 in the Senate) and Govenor Mitt Romney? The plan’s objective is one shared by all concerned about the unisured, [...]
Lawrence Kudlow calls the concerns over a United Arab Emirates company winning the bid to manage six America ports as nothing other than bigotry. His name for this, Islamaphobia, will not likely be added to our daily lexicon. The actions it describes are simply wrong headed.
The McKinsey Quarterly: Intensive care for Medicaid: “Every US policy maker knows that Medicaid presents vexing budget challenges, but a new analysis suggests that its costs are becoming truly unsustainable. McKinsey estimates that even after economic growth returns to a steady pace, this government health insurance program, which primarily serves the poor, will consume more [...]
Democratic National Committee Howard Dean takes the helm of the DNC amid much speculation. Here is his message along with a few other opions. “A message from Chairman Dean Today your representatives elected new Party leadership. But more importantly they endorsed the idea that our Party must always be led by the people — because [...]
FactCheck.org Social Security Ads: Risk or Protection? In this the first round of what will surely be a contentious issue for the congress, FactCheck.org weighs in on the accuracy of current ads. “A pro-Bush TV ad gets the central fact right about Social Security: by the time today’s young workers retire there are projected to [...]
NCPA – Social Security – Facts About Social Security Social Security reform has emerged as one of the defining issues of the 2000 election, but a number of myths and half-truths have clouded the dialogue. Fact #1: The System Is in Trouble. Social Security is structured as a pay-as-you-go system. That means today’s workers pay [...]
The Role of Social Security in Your Financial Planning “Fact 1: Social Security is the guaranteed part of your retirement plan. There have been lots of questions raised about Social Security lately. And granted, it isn’t perfect. We at AARP know that it was never intended to be the sole solution to financial security in [...]
The 6.2 Percent Solution: A Plan for Reforming Social Security: “For the past several years there has been a growing consensus about the need to reform Social Security. Now, however, the debate has advanced to the point where it becomes important to move beyond generalities and provide specific proposals for transforming Social Security to a [...]
FactCheck.org Bush’s State of the Union: Social Security “Bankruptcy?”: FactCheck.org MoveOn.org Social Security Ad The folks at FactCheck.org are equally critical of Bush’s use of agressive projections and language as he pushed his plan to revamp Social Security in his State of the Union address and MoveOn.org’s use of false claims regarding cuts in benefit [...]
Do Pharmaceutical Companies Have an Effective Business Models? Has the Pharmaceutical Blockbuster Model Gone Bust? Bain & Company Press Release 12/8/2003 Rebuilding Big Pharma’s Business Model In Vivo 11/1/2003 by James Gilbert, Preston Henske and Ashish Singh The blockbuster business model that underpinned Big Pharma’s success is now irreparably broken. The industry needs a new [...]
Offshoring – Relocating the back office Dec 11th 2003 From The Economist print edition The Organizational Implications of Offshore Outsourcing 24 October 2003 Diane Morello Acrobat Version Offshoring: Is it a Win-Win Game? McKinsey Global Institute August, 2003 The Irony of Outsourcing By Kevin Laws on November 18, 2003 09:03 PM supports the argument that [...]
This posting by Kevin Brancato suggest that our view of healthcare cost in the US is distorted. While the data seems to lead to the conclusion that we’re buying much more healthcare at sky-high prices, economists doubt the validity and applicability of the offical data because it does not appropriately adjust for quality.
BusinessPundit talks about this movement which according to The Economist is One of the biggest corporate fads of the 1990s—less overpowering, no doubt, than dotcom mania, but also longer-lived—was the flowering of “corporate social responsibility†(CSR). The idea that it is not enough for firms to make money for their owners is one that you [...]
TM Lutas provides an alternative economic analysis of the Internet to those provided by Adam Thierer at Cato, Howard Dean’s Principles for an Internet Policy, David Weinberger’s analysis of the Cato article, and Lawrence Lessig’s commentary on same.
Clark TechCorps – Political Action through Open Source Technology Clark was relatively quick to allow the digital literate to contribute what they may, after the national newspapers covered what the Dean campaign was doing. Will it matter? We’re glad today to announce Clark TechCorps, a technology community initiative to pioneer the development of open source [...]
As I look at predictions for 2004, one area where consensus abounds and debate increases is “Offshore Outsourcing”, the movement of knowledge worker jobs offshore. There is abundant agreement that this will continue, even accelerate. At the same time there is widespread disagreement as to whether this is a good thing for US and European [...]
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