Premiers Meeting: Targeting Asian Markets
Some people say RIM's best-before date may have passed, which raises the question, what's next? Maintaining Canada's competitive edge takes more than strong markets, good intentions, or even hard work. It takes a constant stream of new and innovative products. And that's a problem.
I could be wrong, but my read of the national mood is that it's changing and that enough people are both paying attention to the debt ceiling debate and are "taking names" such that we might see Congress shamed into some action.
One recurring delusion in the controversy over America's free-trade-induced trade mess is the idea that our gigantic trade deficit, which fluctuates around $500 billion a year, somehow "doesn't matter."
It is time to launch a new political party, one with a very simply stated but enormous task, to get the special interest money and lobbying out of our government.
Christine Lagarde needs to do more to improve countries' confidence in the IMF's ability to contain and predict the kinds of financial and economic crises that have continued to challenge the international financial system for over two decades.
To effectively tackle e-waste, we need to think about everything from how to design more efficient and sustainable technology, to making sure consumers have widespread access to recycling drop off locations and other options for donating or recycling used electronics.
Big box stores are vanishing like dust in the wind, to borrow the title of the hit by the group Kansas. Remember Circuit City, Linens 'n Things, and all those Blockbuster stores? Gone, gone and gone. Borders this week became the latest to turn to dust.
The sad lesson of Dodd-Frank is that Wall Street is too powerful to allow effective regulation of it. The only answer left is to break up the giant banks with antitrust action.
If Congress does the unthinkable by not raising the debt ceiling, the U.S. government will start defaulting on its debt, of which the People's Bank of China is the single largest holder.
Given the latest news that Chevron has been leveraging its insider status for huge profits, isn't it time our government began to rein in the massive oil market speculation? Or are the interests of the financial and oil industries just too well connected to permit change?
It is hard to hold the course in the middle of a storm, but European policymakers need to if they want European integration to succeed.
On Tuesday night, the House of Representatives passed the "Cut, Cap and Balance Act." I was proud to vote against it. This is not the time for the Democratic Party to sacrifice our values.
Rupert Murdoch is a fierce competitor, but he has many powerful enemies who have now been galvanized into action. In the end, Murdoch may have gotten it right when he said, "Saying we're sorry is not enough."
At very least, I suspect Google+ will emerge as a central social media hub for lawyers and businesses. Its video conferencing capability is certainly going to be extremely tempting. The virtual courtroom, for example, could be much closer to reality than we think.
Unless there are some tricks that I'm not aware of, if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2nd, the government will soon need to make some painful decisions that would likely irreversibly harm the country's fiscal reputation.
The U.S. economy has become too complex to be understood by one set of statistics -- such as the monthly jobs report. And the resulting wild swings in growth projections can only unnerve the general public.
With everything we say and every step we take, people choose whether to buy us... or not. Would you buy you? Take a few minutes to consider how you have invested in yourself -- your clothes, your tone, your brand, your knowledge, your stories... your buy-ability.
One common misconception among many people who rent their homes is that they are covered under their landlord's insurance in case of an accident, burglary, or other disaster. Let me dispel that myth and a few others as well.
On first blush, I thought content mills were appalling, as they got really cheap content and resold it for, I suspect, way more than a few dollars. What I found out though kind of mitigated my initial disgust.
Scott Boyd, 2011.07.21
