China is the overwhelmingly major supplier of rare earth minerals to the rest of the world. (South Africa has a tiny share.) Rare earth minerals (or elements) are critical factors of production of many high technology items such as super-conductors, catalysts, rare earth magnets and batteries of the kind used in hybrids and laptops. With…
I haven’t yet found a WordPress plugin that creates really great word / tag clouds. I created this one from my post Clear, Simple and Wrong using Wordle. I think it sums up the post well.
In broad terms, we are all mostly ignorant. Worse than ignorant, we have notions and views, firmly held, that are entirely incorrect. We only complain about what we don’t like Nobody complains to their boss that they are overpaid. Nobody complains that their pension or social security increases were above inflation last year. We don’t…
Always interesting to see analysis of our little world hit the big screen.
photo credit: euthman You get what you pay for? You get what you pay for even if it’s for the fire department to put our the fire in your burning house. At least that’s the way the conservative, Republican-saturated fiefdom of Tennessee County have it. Firefighters watched a house burn down rather than put it…
The debate around jobs, jobs at any cost, fair wages, fair working conditions, exploitation and what truly is best for the economy is complex. Â Don’t let anyone tell you different. Â If it really were that simple we’d have finished having the same debate while the Feudal System was still active. However, the recognition of the…
The reason opinions are so cheap is that everyone has one and nobody wants to buy anyone else’s. I’m no different. I’m not going to try to sell you mine. I would like to present you with some ideas to think about before you overpay for someone else’s though. Jon commented on a recent post…
The Rand is much stronger against the US Dollar now than any time in the last 18 months. Aside from a brief blip at the end of 2007, it’s actually back to 2006 for the Rand to be stronger. Given that our inflation has been higher than US inflation by some margin at every point…
