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Tag Archives: business
Health Care Costs
Megan McArdle looks at why health care costs so much. Plus an anecdote on why they will continue to grow. (we keep costs low here at ASHC by outsourcing our health care blogging to Megan)
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Tagged business, costs, Health Care, the atlantic, universal healthcare
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Mixed Economies: Efficacy Without Moral Narrative
(photo: Ian Murchison | website) The nationalization of Fannie & Freddie is often presented as a crisis of faith for the political right, due to its manifest incompatibility with the advertised belief in the “free market.” However, Sunder Katwala at … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic Politics, Economics, Lee's Page
Tagged analysis, Anglo-Saxon, Bush Administration, business, capitalism, Conservatism, democracy, Environment, Fannie Mae, Francis Fukuyama, Freddie Mac, free market, Fukuyama, left, liberalism, markets, mixed economy, morality, mortgage crisis, NextLeft, orthodoxy, private sector, Reagan, right, social democracy, Sunder Katwala, Thatcher, Third Way
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Sheesh!
I would call this ignorance, but it is worse than that. The Times reporters just believe corporations are such a honey pot they didn’t even stop to think. They just wrote.
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Tagged accounting, business, corporations, honey pot, ignorance, Media, New York Times, Reporters, taxes
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Eager to Invest in an Emerging International Pariah?
Russia suddenly has an investor confidence problem. Can’t imagine why.
Ugly Business Terms
Not long ago we called it “coopetition” theory. A hideous word I thought. But now there’s an even uglier word for the same phenomenon: frenemies.
Colombia’s Capitalist Communes
Colombian flower farms (photo: Mike Freedman-Schnapp) Colombia’s flower farm workers have for some time been benefiting mightily from industrial support communities, which practice heavy nongovernmental social investment in workforce collectives. Many of the workers in these communities outside Bogota and … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Tagged Bogota, business, CFTA, Colombia, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, community, daycare, Fausta, Felipe Arango, flowers, free trade, government, labor, Medellin, MG Farm, rights, Shapiro, Sherrod Brown, social investing, trade, USA, worker rights, workers
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Hacking with an Invitation
Hilarious story. If you put the password in the page, it’s not exactly hacking for someone to enter your “secure” site. To add to the hilarity, they’ve left the insecure login method in place and merely changed the password (view … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Digg, Federal Supplier's Guide, hacking, Mr. Baby Man, password, scam, security, Technology
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What Else Fascism?
There’s editorial sensationalism, and then there’s Keith Olbermann. Consider Mr. Olbermann on Bush recently: “If you believe in the seamless mutuality of government and big business, come out and say it! There is a dictionary definition, one word that describes … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush, business, cynicism, dictatorship, fascism, government, Keith Olbermann, militarism, nationalism, plutocracy, power, socialism, t-sirt
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Too Bootylicious for Your Jeans?
Fiorana is a new company that is manufacturing blue jeans specially made to accommodate a certain widely admired latina asset. According president Mike Braden, “The Latina body is different in waist and hip structure. When wearing Anglo cut jeans, there … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, anglo, blue jeans, business, ethnic, fashion, Fiorana, hispanic, latina, marketing, Mike Braden, women
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Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian
Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie) John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Developmental economics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Interviews, Lee's Page
Tagged Africa, Alberta, Angola, Arctic, Beijing, Bonga, business, Cabinda, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Chevron, cocoa, Cold War, Congo, Domestic Politics, Dutch disease, economy, energy, Environment, ethnic nationalism, Financial Times, FPSO, Gabon, Geneva, geostrategy, ghana, guerrilla warfare, Gulf of Guinea, Houston, IMF, interview, John Ghazvinian, Joseph Kia Mboungou, kidnapping, left, memo, mercantile, Middle East, neoconservative, Niger Delta, Nigeria, offshore, oil, oil sands, oilfield trash, peak oil, petroleum engineers, post-nationalism, prostitution, reinvestment, rentier, Royal Dutch Shell, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, shale, Shell, subculture, Suez Canal, Transportation, Uganda, UK, United Nations, Washington, workers, World Bank, Zimbabwe
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The Scale of the American Economy
Click to enlarge I thought the map Lance posted from the other day (originally from Strange Maps), which expressed the GDP of foreign countries as US states, based on their approximate equivalent GSP, was a pretty interesting visualization. However, I … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Lee's Page
Tagged , American, business, chart, China, Economics, economy, GDP, Germany, GSP, image, map, regions, scale, states, strange maps, UK, United Kingdom, US, visualization
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Tabletop Business Education
Someone is trying to teach Julia Allison about leveraged buyouts. There’s a whole new world for the lady to conquer. Did you know that Julia has the distinction of having the best socialite sobriquet ever devised? “A notorious figure with … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Education, Henry Kissinger, Julia Allison, lady, leveraged buyouts, New York, notorious, socialite
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Rumors of Recession
Hyundai is contemplating pulling its Superbowl advertising, citing sudden concerns about US economic indicators. Traditionally ad budgets are the first to go when firms start believing they’re entering a recession. Not the most encouraging news of the day.
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Tagged advertising, business, economy, Hyundai, marketing, recession, Superbowl
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