Monthly Archives: January 2009
Trade-O-Nomics & Those Phantom Baskets
Reader writes: “Hi george, You wrote the following: You may not hear ‘mainstream’ economists telling you this yet but when the outbound is falling faster than the inbound, seems pretty obvious to a macrocon that the balance of trade for … Continue reading
Revenge of the Macrocons
Most people probably don’t know what ‘macrocons’ are, and I never thought of them that way until reading one book about economics, or other, recently. Might have been Ben Bernanke’s Essays on the Great Depression but it’s early and not … Continue reading
Coping: Keys to the Clouds
He’s off asking permission from the higher-ups to allow him to share some slides that explain the difference between time-share, utility, web, grid, and cloud computing, but a PhD fellow with a well-known computer company…or should I say a Big … Continue reading
Belaboring Layoffs
Before we get to the heart of this morning’s report, let’s start here: There’s an interesting ‘analysis’ that showed up on the Financial Times site last night authored by billionaire investor George Soros. What caught my eye is the part … Continue reading
Coping: Beyond the Google Earth Debate
People in India face the prospect of having Google Earth shut off because it was supposedly used by those terrorists a while back to plan their attacks. Good note on point from a reporter in Minneapolis who writes in The … Continue reading
Fed Decision: Nothing Left to Give
Since we’re so close to “money for nothing” (get your chips for free), the high point of the Fed meeting decision out in the past few minutes has been talking points… “The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep … Continue reading
Global Trend: Barter Returns
Quick: The world’s oldest profession is what? No, not that aspect of it; the bartering aspect of it. That’s the point this morning as we read how Russia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and other countries are resorting to barter or goods exchanges … Continue reading
Coping: Memeering Alert: Bad Rapping Marx
Got an email with a very interesting quote in it this morning…the quote was this: “In closing, I would like to leave you with a quote from the book “Das Kapital” by Karl Marx: “Owners of capital will stimulate the … Continue reading
For Whom the Ax Falls
Since I’m not really big into saying “I told you so” it would be inappropriate for me to point back to my December 17th column (archived here) where I wrote: “In fact, not only is it becoming doubtful that all … Continue reading
Coping: Reworking The Independence Journal
For Whom the Axe Falls Since I’m not really big into saying “I told you so” it would be inappropriate for me to point back to my December 17th column (archived here) where I wrote: “In fact, not only is … Continue reading