Archive for January 20th, 2008

20Jan

EU Schizophrenia

Posted by Jeff as Uncategorized

Here’s the thing I never quite grasp about the EU, they want the economic upside and mobility of a unified trading nation but wish to preserve the protectionism of a nation-state… something about having one’s cake and eating it too? I am quite positive that if Nokia was closing a plant in France to open [...]

This piece in InformationWeek makes it sound like Wal-Mart sprung this on their suppliers. This technology initiative has been underway for several years past the pilot phase and every WM supplier knew this was coming. The thing that is surprising, if anything at all, is that WM kept cutting the suppliers a break with regard [...]

More on this topic (What's this?) Read more on Wal-Mart, RFID at Wikinvest

20Jan

Stupid Polls on SFGate

Posted by Jeff as Public Policy

When I see polls like the one I clipped below (in SFGate, here’s the story) I really wonder if people pay attention to news and/or understand basic economics. But mostly I just wonder about the IQ of people writing these polls. First of all, tax actions are intended to stimulate economic activity that results in [...]


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