Economics

When I woke up this morning, grabbed a cup of coffee to steady myself, and flipped on the computer, what should greet me as the first news item but: “Tech Firms Defend Moving Jobs Overseas.” This thing is heating up as a political issue and the everybody is getting their licks in. Companies wanting to fend-off protectionist moves are saying ...

Last evening while cooking dinner I surfed TV channels and came across a C-SPAN press conference at the Brookings Institute about an editorial piece published in the Intl. Herald Tribune on 1/7 by NY Senator Charles Schumer and Charles Roberts, a former Treasury undersecretary in the Regan administration. As my chops sizzled they discussed the piece titled “Exporting jobs is ...

The Silicon Valley 40 miles south of the CA Div Office seems to me a kind of fishbowl for the future, especially regarding jobs and business change. I think what’s happening in the information technology sector is a harbinger of things to come in many parts of the economy, i.e., we’re seeing before our eyes the materialization of 21st century ...