Obama’s New Ad is Half Right
by The Politico has a transcript of Barak Obama’s new Iowa ad here: Ordinary people all across the country are struggling from paycheck to paycheck. If …
Category: Business
Red-lining Black America
Jesse Jackson said today that mortgage companies and other lenders discriminated against black Americans by “profiling” them and that the rash of home mortgage foreclosures could …
Russia’s New Aims
Perhaps I shouldn’t call them new – Vlad Putin’s had a plan in mind for quite a while, I now understand – but his real …
America Competes Act (Farce?)
The U.S. Senate recently passed, with no discernible fanfare whatsoever, a bill entitled the America Competes Act. According to EdNews.org: the bill would increase research …
Excessive Compensation Bad for Investors
Chuck Moore says “I think this is obscene. It is not just this one but hundreds like this case. Does this come from stockholder equity?” …
Guy’s Inspiring Business Story of the Year
Read Guy Kawasaki’s interview with Aziza Mohmmand, an Afghani female entrepreneur – wow. Prime Q&A: Question: What did you like the most and the least …
Bad Time for a Strike
US Airways machinists must be living in a different country than I am. They’ve rejected the airline’s offer of a minimal wage cut. Read about …
The Wisdom of Guy Kawasaki
I’ve been reading this cat’s blog since he started recently and Guy has some interesting things to say on the topic of venture capital and …
Microsoft Idiotic, Duplicitous
The recent case of Kai-Fu Lee, a Microsoft VP who dared to leave MS for Google has a temporary conclusion: A former Microsoft Corp. executive …
Less Foreign Workers = Better Job Outlook?
One would like to think that the Feds cutting back on the number of visas issued to high-tech workers would improve the prospects for U.S. …