Nokia’s business may not be circling the drain hole, but it is in the toilet despite positive spin around its recent finances. How can the company be saved? A former exec knows: by flushing its middle management. Juhani Risku wrote a book– Uusi Nokia (New Nokia)–that has been a sensation in Finland, but is only now hitting the English-speaking…
Some things were just meant to be As a rule I’m a ‘never-before-noon’ man. But one morning recently there it was, on top of the spread of magazines laid out for me on my desk. Cover story of The Atlantic Monthly, the magazine founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and some cronies over a few drinks at the Parker House…
Amazon shot off an innocuous news release last night announcing that several heavyweights of literature would soon be joining its Kindle Store roster, including Salman Rushdie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth. These big gains for Amazon’s e-book store come from a deal with the Wylie Agency that’s bringing 20 of the most important titles in fiction to the Kindle.…
Scientists: Oil plumes definitely from BP’s well TAMPA, Fla. — Researchers in Florida say they have the first scientific proof that two plumes of oil beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico came from BP’s broken well. University of South Florida scientists said Friday they linked the oil to BP’s well based on chemical tests of two plumes…
Below the fold is the 3rd in a series of posts providing analysis (and follow up) on the difficulties of maintain our current energy paradigm with renewable energy (generally, ‘the fake fire brigade’). The main authors are Hannes Kunz, President of Institute for Integrated Economic Research (IIER) and Stephen Balogh, a PhD student at SUNY-ESF and Senior Research Associate…
One Person’s Oil Addict is Another’s Intelligent Consumer In the last few weeks, rhetoric about America’s oil addiction has resurfaced, years after being pushed by former President George W. Bush. It is meant to explain the inability of Americans to become energy independent or at least to significantly reduce consumption. The implication is that consumers are either foolish or…
by David Clow – Maryland
Five Problems Financial Reform Doesn’t Fix
Many of the weaknesses and imbalances that led to the financial crisis will survive our regulatory response. Here are five big ones to watch for.
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