In a recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek Andy Grove says that the way to make American jobs is not start-ups, as Times op-ed writer Friedman would have it, but tariffs! This is how he puts it, “Levy an extra tax on the product of offshored labor. (If the result is a trade war, treat it [...]
Archive for July 2010
Andy Grove, Smoot-Hawley redux?
July 17, 2010Words are not enough
July 16, 2010I voted for President Obama. At the time probably because of what I saw as his reasonable stance on most things, in particular for what he wrote in the two autobiographical works published well before the presidential campaign, and for the many thoughtful and persuasive talks and speeches he has give during the recent past, [...]
Why Bill Gates Never Finished Harvard
July 14, 2010Mostly he didn’t need to. He knew then that Harvard was only getting in the way of his learning. Much as the public school gets in the way of kids learning. And they drop out. How many of you ever think of the fact that our public school system is just one huge entitlement paid [...]
Is President Obama a socialist?
July 11, 2010Now it is common among some groups on the Right to label our president a socialist. Is this only name calling, or is there some truth in the designation? Michael Walzer in an article, “Which Socialism” in this summer’s Dissent Magazine says that “today’s” socialism (or if you prefer, social democracy) combines three features, each [...]
We are all socialists now
July 5, 2010According to Guy Sorman, in a recent piece in the City Journal, the member states of the European Union at the time of the Union’s creation held fast to free market principles, believing then that responsible governance by their members should be in accordance with these principles. Perhaps this was true at the time of [...]
Missing, the bully pulpit
July 2, 2010The subject of President Obama’s most recent address was immigration. The Times in an editorial about this speech had two things to say, two things that I might have said myself, and almost with the same words. Although I don’t always agree with the Times editorial positions in this case I did. Two things, one, [...]
