International Isn’t Just IBM’s First Name
Monday, June 7th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »From Business Week (1/17/2008): "Big Blue has built a global network for client services and in the past three years has hired 90,000 people in low-cost countries." Of IBM's 375,000 employees worldwide, about 2/3 of them (250,000) are outside ...
What Consensus on Global Warming?
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »From Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe: In 2003, environmental scientists Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch surveyed 530 of their peers in 27 countries on topics related to global warming. Question 1: To what extent do you agree or ...
A Lesson in Lower Healthcare Costs from the UK?
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Here's something the U.S. can learn from the U.K. about lowering healthcare costs, improving efficiency and increasing access: Allow pharmacists to dispense certain drugs without a prescription from a physician? The Food and Drug Administration is inviting comment on just ...
The World According to Newspapers
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The UK's Online Journalism Blog features maps that show the world in 2007 through the eyes of editors-in-chief. The larger (smaller) the country on the maps, the more (less) media attention. See the world according to London's The Sun ...
New BLS Website for International Labor Data
Thursday, May 27th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »There is a new website for international labor data from the BLS, including lots of charts and graphs: Although BLS is the premier source for U.S. labor statistics, the Bureau is also widely recognized for providing comparable international data. The ...
Cuba Ranks #156 Out of 157 for Economic Freedom
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »According to the 2007 Heritage/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom, Cuba has a score of 29.7 (29.7% economically free) out of 100, and ranks 156 out of 157 countries, see the ranked list here. North Korea is #157 with ...
Life Expectancy Higher in the US than UK at Age 75
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In the movie "Sicko," Michael Moore mentions several times that life expectancy is longer in countries like the U.K. and France that have socialized medicine than in the U.S., which doesn't have socialized health care. The implication is that ...
IQ and The Wealth of Nations
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »GDP per capita vs. IQ Top 20 Countries for Average IQ IQ by country, click on map above to enlarge (green is highest, yellow is second-highest). Source: "IQ and The Wealth of Nations" entry on Wikipedia
Melodrama and Villains vs. Supply and Demand
Friday, May 21st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »With all the commotion in the media and in politics about the high price of gasoline, is there really some terribly complex explanation? Is there anything complex about the fact that with two countries-- India and China-- having rapid economic growth, ...
Free-Trade Paradox: Poor Benefit More Than Rich
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »It’s safe to say that the main burden of trade-related job losses and wage declines has fallen on middle- and lower-income Americans. So standing up to China seems like a logical way to help ordinary Americans do better. But there’s ...
