by Tom | Nov 8, 2012 | Government
Must-read article discussing the options for Romney (clearly no longer valid in defeat) and Obama in dealing with the “fiscal cliff”. Main take-out: if Obama does nothing, the world does not end in Jan 2013 and he ends up with a much stronger hand against...
by Tom | Oct 18, 2012 | Business, Government, Reading
People who download music for free purchase more music than people who don’t download music for free, say a survey in where do Music Collections Come From? Sounds right to me, and looks right for books as well. It seems that all those people reading Kindles or...
by Tom | Oct 16, 2012 | Business, Government
That’s pretty hard-hitting (PDF) from the St Louis Fed: The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve to increase innovation and productivity, unless the latter is identified with the number of patents awarded...
by Tom | Oct 9, 2012 | Business, Government, Reading
You think about how much value Tim Berners-Lee created and how he didnt actually capture very much of it. It was captured by companies like Google, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook. You also think about the other extreme, where companies like Goldman Sachs managed to...
by Tom | Sep 18, 2012 | Government, Reading
Fabulous quote from Rick Santorum: We will never have the elite, smart people on our side. Two contrasting essays which are well worth reading: Michael Lewis with Obama. How the Romney campaign stumbled. Also interesting is Obama’s sword shaking at China, which...
by Tom | Sep 6, 2012 | Government, Reading, Science
Feynman nails it, as always. Can we say this to the reshuffleshambles lot? The rest of the article is a great selection of his thinking too. … as I’d like to show Galileo our world, I must show him something with a great deal of shame. If we look away from the...
