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IBM to Relocate Laid-off Workers to India, Elsewhere
by IBM has been shedding employees at a rapid rate in the last few years as its mainframe computer and consulting businesses struggle to compete. In …
Category: Business
Ayn Rand’s "Atlas Shrugged": Novel or Prophecy?
Stephen Moore writes that the central themes of Ayn Rand’s massive book are playing out even now in Washington D.C. as an incompetent government hurries …
Competition No Longer an American Ideal?
Michael Lind says that southern states have waged an economic civil war on the rest of America, the real America, in Lind’s mind, by creating …
Business / Energy / Environment / Liberalism
The Wisdom of Markets
Crowd-sourcing, capturing the “wisdom” of the mob, was what the cool kids were doing not so long ago. Witness the rise of the Daily Kos …
U.S. Automaker Bailout Happening
The Houston Chronicle says that U.S. automakers will be getting $15B in "emergency loans" and a new boss in Washington D.C. in the form of …
GM, the Company No One Wants
GM has a physical plant and inventory assets that exceed its current market capitalization of around $3B. The company would be ripe for a takeover …
Opposing Bailouts on Principle
Oliver Hart, professor of economics at Harvard, and Luigi Zingales, professor of finance at the Chicago Booth School of Business, say that Bush administration economists …
Detroit’s Problems and the Left
Perhaps the fundamental problem of our time is that no one wants to tell – or hear – the truth anymore. This has certainly been …
Sued, eHarmony Must Couple Gays
In 2005, eHarmony, a leading on-line matchmaking service, began to fight a discrimination lawsuit filed by a gay man in New Jersey. In 2007, the …
Forgotten Purposes
A 61-year-old man faces an early death. Fortunately, a drug exists that *might* help. Doctors, recognizing the case is imminently terminal, recommend trying it. The …