I’m finding the terms “right-wing” and “left-wing” when describing the leanings of certain political to be uninformative and outdated. Today’s political parties give their opinions on labour, taxes, military, foreign policy, relationship of church and state, transportation, environment and every other government issue under the sun. Environmental protection has been deemed a “left-wing” policy, but [...]
Archive for February 2009
Right and Left
February 9, 2009Tariffs versus “Buy American”
February 5, 2009Obviously I need to learn more about economics. With all the talk about America starting trade wars with their buy American proposals, I get slightly confused. If the government (not a private corporation) wants to put rules in place so that their money is spent on American items, doesn’t that seem just? American taxpayer money [...]
Trade Wars and the Recession
February 4, 2009Wow–an excellent essay from Henry C. K. Liu predicting some of the troubles that the world, and especially the US, is facing right now. I tried to follow all the talk about dollar hegemoney and hopefully learned something from it. All in all, an interesting look at the future, from June 2005.
$20 laptop? Attempts to educate more of India
February 4, 2009Patrick Mannion has an interesting look at how Tata is attempting to address India’s less fortunate population by proposing a $20 laptop. An ambitious project, the questions are: will they be able to build a functional $20 laptop? And will they be able to really sell that many to the less fortunate of India (and [...]
Solar: Europe winning?
February 3, 2009Here’s another interesting article from EE Times regarding solar cell manufacturing. Looks like Europe and especially Germany are really taking the solar “bull” by the horns. Is this extra foresight by the government of Germany? Could they be going too far down this road? Whatever the case, Europe has commited many resources to the production [...]
