The following is an example of Time Magazine’s Business Competitivenes indicator in an overall new section called Global Business on its website. It seems that Tom Friedman in his book The World is Flat, may have tripped off the publishing of reports comparing the effective business infrastructure and competitiveness of various world countries. Time...
The New York Times and the Economist rarely agree on economic outlooks but of late they have begun to converge. The graph below shows the problem: The New York Time is calling this 21st century boom -> The Good Times that were Mostly a Mirage. In surprising agreement, the Economist is seeing red signals...
The results of the South Carolina primary seems to indicate that voters have repudiated BillnHill (or Billary, as NYTimes Frank Rich calls them). Barack Obama’s victory by 24 points with a huge turnout appears to be major tag against the BillnHill tagteam. Also key endorsements help Barack. But the two headed monster that is...
The Toronto Star’s Saturday January 26th, 2008 Business section (page B3) has a couple of very interesting stories on litigation ensuing from recent major financial transactions. Both suits will be tests on the extent of legal liabilities in various recent financial “transactions”. The first story is about the exposue of 3 large Canadian banks...
BillClinton over the past 2-4 years had built up a stellar reputation for statesmanship and non-divisive politics. Item, Bill had worked not once but twice with President George Bush Sr on the Tsunami Aid Fund and then on the Katrina Aid campaign. Bill had even praised the relationship and decried on Charlie Rose’s TV...
Well Greed Guts are now into round 4 of the debacle - the Tag Team Match known as the Blame Game: See You in Court. It will not be pretty if the New York Times and/or The Economist are right on Denmark . Take a 5th of your favorite hooch if you are a...
I have been arguing that US Executives have been missing a)world market opportunities and b)have become too reliant on the fact that North America’s 4% of the World’s population will continue to account for 20-25% of the World’s consumption. I have been watching the US auto industry – one of the most “international” of...
The ill-fated Iraq incursion and subsequent fiasco may be the source of more widespread problems than instability in the Mid East. Remember the neoconservatives (take a look here for a caustic appraisal of US neoconservatives)were promising that preventitive incursions like Iraq would not only root out malicious regimes but also present the opportunity to...
A few years ago with Craigslist.org gutting every city newspaper’s classified ad section with its free ads, the writing was on the wall for newsprint: down and out in “know” time. Everybody knew that Web Triumphant would prevail. Well not so fast: This the latest of about 3-5 rejections per week I get from...
I am a hopeless Detroit Lions football fan. This tortured allegiance goes way back to before Barry Sanders and even the Bobby Layne eras. So in time it twinkles back to the high-fin Detroit cars of the 1950′s. Now any of you who know football, know that I have chosen the-patience-of-Job challenging loyalty. The...
Both fascinating and frustrating reading. The story of Joseph Needham collecting together the history and legacy of China's technological triumph's is utterly fascinating. But frustrating is the failure of Winchester to shed clear light on why a)China did not already have such a hitorical trove in Beijing and b) why did China miss out on the Industrial Revolution while Japan, even more reclusive, did not.
