Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…

Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…

Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…

Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…

Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…

Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…

Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…

Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…

Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…

Where you are is still important. Location has a huge impact on the resources available to you, the education of the people that you work with, the money available to try out radical ideas, and the cultural attitudes towards new things. Check out this from a Time Magazine article on California : Ignore the California whinery. It’s still a dream state. more…

Ravi Nagarajan submits: Barron’s published an interesting article this weekend by Jonathan A. Knee, director of the Media Program at Columbia Business School and co-author of The Curse of the Mogul . (Note: Mr. Knee’s co-author for the book is Bruce Greenwald who has been discussed here in the past.) Mr. Knee’s article pertains directly to a topic that appeared here in May regarding newspapers and “creative destruction” . Mr. Knee’s article in Barron’s is entitled “This Dying Medium Has Plenty of Life”. more…

So much creative destruction to document, so little time. Much will be revealed this week in the Aussie market, although a lot will probably remain obscure too. Producer price data for the September quarter comes out from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Inflation anyone? Maybe not in wages. But certainly in raw materials (energy). And speaking of inflation, the Housing Industry Association will report new homes sales data for September later this week too. more…

Cory Doctorow.  Makers (Tor, 2009). The major themes I’ve written about here lately — the decline of traditional mass-production industry, the crisis of value and shift of production outside the cash nexus, the rise of micromanufacturing (see “ The Homebrew Industrial Revolution “), the digital/network culture — are all central to Makers .  And given my research and writing interests, it’s a foregone conclusion that any work of cyberpunk or other near-future sci fi is going to wind up marked and dogeared beyond belief.  Just about anything I’ve read by Neal Stephenson or William Gibson has ended up that way, as did the machine shop material in the first volume of S. more…

Nobody can predict the future. But I have a hunch, so I might as well share it.I believe the United States economy has been so hollowed out that we will not return to the prosperity we were accustomed to in the latter part of the 20th Century. There is no economic foundation on which to build. For more analysis and explanation of the economic decay, see Jon Taplin’s Blog.The American industrial base has been eroding for four decades.  There is almost no industrial base left. more…

Zero Hedge Have you ever taken the time to talk to someone who was old enough to remember the Great Depression? My guess is that you would inevitably find that his or her views on the economy, the role of government and the financial markets were meaningfully different from those of a person who came of age during 1960s or 1990s, for example. Specifically, since many of these perspectives were indelibly shaped by the traumatic circumstances of that period, people who lived through the Depression often tend to be more conservative in nature. more…

ObamaCare’s Tax on Work: Middle-income families will face a big marginal rate increase. – theabsurdreport.com 10/24/2009 This is an equity catastrophe waiting to happen—and senior Democrats know it. They’re laying a political booby-trap that will transfer even more health spending to government after ObamaCare passes. NRLC – Warns House on Abortion in Public Plan – nhinsider.com 10/24/2009 CRS memo confirms:  The “public plan” will spend federal funds National Right to Life warns U.S. more…

tedr : bijan : Much has been said about the issues facing publishers and advertisers particularly when it comes to branded advertising. My head always hurts when I hear people say that at least with television, brands can safely advertise their brands. Yes, television has been a success story when it comes to branded advertising. The dollars are big. Forget big, they are enormous. But I’m convinced that it’s a fragile business. First, it’s not growing. And our attention is shifting. more…

Japan has gone through two lost decades, in and out of deflation, with nothing to show for it but increasing debt to GDP and a stock market still 70% below its peak. Now, Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. says U.S. Risks Japan-Like ‘Lost Decade’ on Stimulus Exit . U.S. officials contemplating an exit from record fiscal stimulus are in danger of repeating mistakes that plunged Japan into its lost decade of stagnant growth, according to Richard Koo of Nomura Research Institute Ltd. more…

China has for several years been heralded by western business leaders as ‘the place to be’. Yet despite the widespread excitement, the business successes of foreign companies operating and investing there have been limited, both in terms of quantity and in terms of magnitude. This week’s edition of The Economist , however, draws attention to the recent stellar performance of Israeli-Chinese venture firm Infinity in addressing the Chinese opportunity via its Infinity I-China fund. more…