Globalization

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Keating Economics Video

The Obama campaign has implemented a new web site (http://www.keatingeconomics.com/) dedicated to providing detailed information and facts related to John McCain’s involvement with the Keating 5 savings and loan scandal. This is not new information, and at the time that it was taking place, it was very public information. But it is very relevant information [...]

Al Gore and Bono Speak at the World Economic Forum

Al Gore and Bono discuss climate change and poverty at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week.

Global Poverty Session at Yearly Kos Convention

I’ve been playing with a new service called ustream. It is kind of like YouTube, but it is live streaming video. I figured out this morning that streams can be saved and replayed.
I missed the panel on Global Poverty with Susan McCue from ONE (formerly Harry Reid’s chief of staff) at the Yearly Kos Convention [...]

LEAN - Maybe, MEAN - ??

Late last Friday afternoon I was IMing with one of my teammates at work, trying to solve a VPN-router issue, and he sent me the following URL; http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070504_002027.html, and told me to check it out.
Needless to say, as a current employee of IBM Integrated Technology Delivery (aka Global Services, Strategic Outsourcing), the information in the [...]

Senator Sherrod Brown’s Maiden Speech in the Senate

The new Senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, gave his maiden speech on the Senate floor last Thursday. I was working away at my computer, with CSPAN on low in the background, when I heard the following words (which actually turn out to be a quote of John Paul II) “We judge any economic system by [...]