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Tag Archives: economy
Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley During the Boom and Bust
by Robert Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand the impact of tight labor markets on the high-techindustry and its effect on entrepreneurship inSilicon Valley during the boom and bust. This report uses a new measure of entrepreneurial activity to study entrepreneurship from 1996 to 2005 [...]
Posted in small business Also tagged boom, bust, CA, California, dot com, entrepreneurship, high-tech, Silicon Valley Leave a comment
Protection Racket
Want cops ? Pay up. “That bill is for their share of the operating costs of the Unified Police Department.” $186 for homeowners. $81,912 for Wal-Mart. “Hospitals, churches and non-profit organizations will also be assessed the fee.” Gotta pay to pray. The mob might be cheaper. Coming soon to a neighborhood near you
The Inhuman Condition
Calling 911 will cost you money in this town. “they will be charged $300 if they make a call for help. ” How many people will not call 911 now ? Let’s say you were going down the road and see a wreck. Or a burglary ? Or an assault ? Will you pay to [...]
Posted in finance, Government, Law, Opinion, Politics, Society Also tagged California, compassion, crime, money, poverty, risks Leave a comment
Lessons Learned From Previous Recessions
The recession beginning in December 2007 led to the largest overall job losses and increases in unemployment rates since the early 1980s. Evidence from the four recessions since 1980 provides a possible road map of the pattern of recovery from the most recent recession. The intensity, duration, and depth of past recessions varied widely across [...]
Posted in the economy Also tagged education, farming, metro, recession, rural, unemployment Leave a comment
China Must Lead
A perceptive article from China, graciously translated by our friends at the European Tribune. The West bears responsibility for the last two hundred years worth of accumulated carbon emissions in the air. But the West can wait, for they will feel less pain from the coming changes, and the developing nations will bear the brunt [...]
Posted in environment, International, Law Also tagged adaptation, climate change, environment, global warming, poverty Leave a comment
Hu’s Your Daddy ?
China gets a lot more respect these days. The military-industrial-government complex in the USA is going to have to watch what they do in the future. Taiwan may have to be crossed off the sales list. Never mind, there are a lot of countries that China doesn’t yet care about. But losing a few billion [...]
Preying on the Ill