My Comments: Why, you may be asking, is Tony Kendzior devoting a blog post to Windows 8. One reason is that Microsoft is a major player in the computer industry and if you are an investor, then knowing what is happening in the computer industry may help you make better decsions about investments. Another reason …
Category: Global Economics
In Snowden’s Privacy Fight, the Spies Are Likely to Win
My Comments: I just can’t seem to get worked up about the probablility that my privacy is being invaded by the government. Yes, I do have interactions with people and places that need to remain private, but none of them to my knowledge have anything to do with national security. So the fact that they …
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Lessons for Obama From Bush’s Wars
My Comments: I was born in Great Britain, with bombs falling within a few miles of the house where my mother lived. My father was across the English Channel, with the British Army, with the as yet to happen escape via Dunkirk. From time to time, my mother and her two sisters retreated to a …
Move Over, Saudi Arabia, and Let North Dakota Take Over
My Comments: How many of us saw this coming as little as five years ago? By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne | May 14, 2013 A buyer’s market in oil is in the making and will bring about disruptive market change that should benefit American manufacturers and consumers and prove challenging for Middle Eastern producers and European …
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Austerity Exposes the Global Threat from Tax Havens
My Comments: Unless you have been to the Cayman Islands, or happen to make far more money than you actually need to live your life, the idea of an offshore tax haven is pretty remote. You’ve heard about them, but since they are so far removed from your reality, they seem to stay under the …
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The New Deal for Europe: More Reform, Less Austerity
My Comments: There has been a disconnect in this country, typically along partisan lines, whether or not austerity is the way to solve the so called debt crisis at the federal level. As an economist, and a Democrat, my instinct has been to set the stage for growth, and as growth and increased economic activity …
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America’s Problem is Not Political Gridlock
My Comment: An interesting observation from someone who has spent many years in leadership roles in our society. By Lawrence Summers | Bloomberg | FT Throughout US history, division and slow change have been the norm rather than the exception With last week’s release of the president’s budget, Washington has once again descended into partisan …
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Obama Planned Big Budget Cuts All Along
My Comments: I’m trying to decide if the author of this article is fundamentally to the left of the Obama administration and therefore critical of his lack of fire in promoting new revenue sources for the country, ie higher taxes, or whether the writer is critical because virtually everyone on the right is critical, regardless …
Austerity Obstructs Real Economic Reform
My Thoughts on This: This article comes from the Financial Times, a primarily English publication. If it has a bias, it is probably toward what we think of as liberal. And I’m usually forced to copy the entire post for those of you who are interested since to create a link forces the reader to …
Putting China’s “Hacking Army” into Perspective
My Thoughts on This: As I get older, I become increasingly interested in how the future is likely to unfold. Part of it, I’m sure, is how much of it will I see, what will it look like, will I be there for my grandson’s high school graduation? We have reason to be somewhat fearful …
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