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Job creation, innovation and the Apple iPad
Category: Blog/Analysis
... All of that translates into empty restaurants, shuttered stores, and a hollowing out as big retailers and manufacturers shed staff. Sadly, this creates a negative feedback loop which further depresses ... Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
Google and the Cold War that businesses must play
Category: Blog/Analysis
... free speech and free expression, it is hard to challenge prevailing views and established orthodoxies. A world where politicians decide on the fate of scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs is a place ... Thursday, 11 March 2010 -
And the eyes are always on us
Category: Blog/Analysis
... to meter all internet traffic that passes through its borders. China, the country of the Great Firewall. China, which has jailed and executed numerous citizens for expressing opinions in blogs and online ... Thursday, 25 February 2010 -
Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
Category: Blog/Analysis
... has plenty. In the 1980s, forests of denuded trees created sufficient pressure to motivate governments to act against sulphur emissions. In the 1990s, legislation was enacted to allow global trading ... Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
Promoting Innovation is more than tilting at windmills
Category: Blog/Analysis
... expression is somehow wrong. If a group of people produces little innovation then the chances are that the process of innovating is being constrained. Jails don’t have to have bars to prevent movement. ... Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
Getting democracy right one restaurant at a time
Category: Blog/Analysis
... at global summits often attack local businesses when expressing their frustrations. Democratic governments often assume that Democracy is some natural order that people gravitate towards. The US has ... Thursday, 14 January 2010 -
Nestle, Mugabe and the Devil’s Alternative
Category: Blog/Analysis
... of their assets, depressed earnings, and corruption. And they have stayed. Their reasons are varied, and I have no wish to put words in their mouths, but I imagine them as follows: politics is not ... Thursday, 31 December 2009 -
Cash for junk, will it revive economies?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... secondary market where they would depress prices. Car makers get to sell new cars. Governments get to promote employment and investment, while also reducing carbon emissions from old cars. The scheme ... Thursday, 05 November 2009 -
Protestors demonstrate nothing but their limitations
Category: Blog/Analysis
... he had laid off. Around the world, employers – both honourable and dishonourable – are under tremendous pressure to create jobs and keep factories going, even when there is no money to pay salaries. ... Thursday, 22 October 2009 -
"If you cross the river, you will destroy a great empire."
Category: Blog/Analysis
The age of empire is over. No country is entirely self-sufficient, and no country is able to support that lack of self-sufficiency through conquest or theft. All nations must trade and, with that requirement, ... Thursday, 10 September 2009 -
America's new environmental laws put pressure on global carmakers
Category: Blog/Analysis
“Pension funds that happen to make motorcars,” is how Jeremy Clarkson, a UK-based motoring journalist, describes the US auto industry. This explains one of the reasons why US automakers produce cars ... Thursday, 13 August 2009 -
The responsibility that comes with social grants
Category: Blog/Analysis
... housing. The lack of social support during the original “great” economic depression of the 1930s was certainly made harder by a lack of financial support to the large swathes of people who lost their ... Thursday, 23 July 2009 -
Is the Tata Nano recession proof?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... be for everyone. Its top speed is 100km/hour but it sips fuel at almost 17km/l. Cheap to buy, cheap to run. These prices will put pressure on second hand car prices and expose the ludicrously high ... Wednesday, 10 June 2009 -
Where did South African manufacturing go?
Category: Blog/Analysis
Before play comes work “The way the government goes after places like Clark Foam is by an accumulation of laws, regulations, and subjective decisions they are allowed to use to express their intent. ... Wednesday, 22 April 2009 -
The spectre of economic nationalism
Category: Blog/Analysis
That includes foreigners Many politicians are falling over themselves to draw parallels between the present economic crisis and the Great Depression of 1929 to around 1940. The comparison should be ... Wednesday, 08 April 2009 -
Money, Zimbabwe and the Credit Crisis
Category: Blog/Analysis
... there are funds supporting your signature. A cheque really is a license to print your own money. It’s a printing press in your pocket. You could write out hundreds of cheques, as long as people ... Wednesday, 01 April 2009 -
Steve Jobs, Apple and the CEO's Dilemma
Category: Blog/Analysis
... choice and does not allow pressure from outside interests to sway him into selling products that do not meet his standards. There will be no cheap iPhone or iPod for the masses, let other companies do ... Wednesday, 18 March 2009 -
The EU pre-emptive ban on pesticides harms world trade
Category: Blog/Analysis
... the other hand, there may be opportunities. European farmers will be under greater pressure than outsiders, since crop-spraying and other chemical distribution systems that may impact on water-tables ... Sunday, 15 March 2009 -
The hardest year and the rediscovery of talent
Category: Blog/Analysis
... press secretary, “We need to improve section 189 [of the Labour Act] and make it difficult for companies to retrench workers.” Implying that it is preferable for a company to go entirely insolvent ... Wednesday, 11 March 2009 -
Entrenching the Wealth Gap
Category: Blog/Analysis
... the objectives of the company is pretty difficult. Work-related performance incentives of all stripes have been tried, and found wanting. What, by a form of evolutionary pressure, was found to work ... Wednesday, 04 March 2009
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