Alan Krueger has been named to the top job of Chairing the Council of Economic Advisers. Compared to his predecessors Krueger is a far more influential academic. Influence being measured by the number of times Alan Krueger's work is cited in the academic world. To have an entire first page of Google Scholar in excessContinue reading “Will Alan Krueger be able to help with the immediate employment problem?”
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StratoServe nominated for CBS Connecticut’s Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011
StratoServe has been nominated for CBS Connecticut's Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011. The nomination reads: StratoServe helps organizations "Get Innovation from your B2B and Supply Chain" for economic renewal in Connecticut and USA. Please vote with just one click ( till September 9 , 2011 ) at the CBS Connecticut website here or on theContinue reading “StratoServe nominated for CBS Connecticut’s Most Valuable Blogger Awards 2011”
Organizations get global but Governments struggle local : French downgrade and London riots
Americans secretly admire French style and wine but publicly deride French fries – so its particularly unsettling that a French credit downgrade is affecting Wall Street and millions of Americans' retirement savings. And then you have the London riots where Prime Minbister Cameron is talking about learning how the leadership in Boston (USA) and BelfastContinue reading “Organizations get global but Governments struggle local : French downgrade and London riots”
Happy 4th of July and a globalized America
At a recent entrepreneurs meeting the speaker mentioned that if you can't succeed in America you can't really succeed anywhere else. The audience which was feeling somewhat down with earlier talk of the slow economy, got galvanized and started making active plans for the next thing they were going to do for their businesses. OnContinue reading “Happy 4th of July and a globalized America”
Dealing with nuclear power risks
http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf The Los Alamos wildfare is making headlines as concerns rise about damage to the nuclear lab. Wildfires are more predictable (brush,dry,summer) than earthquakes as in Fukushima,Japan.The question that the rest of the world is asking is if Americans and Japanese are scrambling to deal with natural disasters and nuclerar installations then what aboutContinue reading “Dealing with nuclear power risks”
Entertainment: video game industry three times music and double movie industry
Here are the numbers of the three industries reported on CBS: Music Industry $6.9 Billion Movie Industry $ 10.6 Billion Video Game Industry $23 Billion In fact it is one industry that has booming employment in Texas as people take to video games to escape from thoughts of the slow economy. But frankly, the numbersContinue reading “Entertainment: video game industry three times music and double movie industry”
New ICANN rules might allow interesting distributor websites for major brands
Unless you have $185,000 to spend on a ".yourname" the news that ICANN will allow any legitimate brand owner to get a ".yourname" suffix will not help very much. Unless of course you are a dealer for a major brand like say Ford motors. Then if the brand owner and distributor can work out theContinue reading “New ICANN rules might allow interesting distributor websites for major brands”
US Employment: Opportunity at the high knowledge end and the high touch end
Rana Faroohar of Time discusses the 5 myths of the economic recovery. And a variety of folks have been talking about some of these issues for a long time, notably Thomas Friedman in his The World is Flat that in part, inspired the start of this blog. It's becoming clearer there are only two endsContinue reading “US Employment: Opportunity at the high knowledge end and the high touch end”
German E. Coli outbreak and regulating a global fresh food supply chain
The German E. Coli outbreak seems to be one of the first fresh food global supply chain problems that have come to the fore. Germany imports 40% of its cucumbers from Spain a total of 182,000 tonnes a year. Initially, German authorities blamed Spanish cucumber contamination for the deadly outbreak and now the Germans areContinue reading “German E. Coli outbreak and regulating a global fresh food supply chain”
Where are the variations in healthcare costs? Family of four spending doubles in nine years
According to the Milliman Inc. "Milliman Medical Index -MMI " US families of four are paying double of what they paid($9,235) in 2002 today at $19,393. The family expenses have gone up by 7.3% from 2010 numbers that sure is more than double of the average US inflation rate.Left alone this increase is going toContinue reading “Where are the variations in healthcare costs? Family of four spending doubles in nine years”