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What Does the Earthquake Mean to Japan’s Fiscal Future? (2)
There is no doubt that this terrible earthquake is worse than the Kobe tragedy of 1995. Kobe was a 7.4 on the Richter scale, but the quake that hit …
What Does the Earthquake Mean to Japans Fiscal Future
There is no doubt that this terrible earthquake is worse than the Kobe tragedy of 1995. Kobe was a 7.4 on the Richter scale, but the quake that hit …
Last Defense at Troubled Reactors: Fifty Japanese Workers
A small crew of technicians, braving radiation and fire, became the only people remaining at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Tuesday — and perhaps Japan’s last chance …
Safety on the Cheap
Can we please agree that in the real world corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only — to make as much money as possible, which means cutting …
Contractors Watching Contractors? Where Is the True Oversight? (Part I)
This is the first part of a two part series looking at the trend by the DoD to hire contractors to oversee other DoD contractors instead of doing the …
Ecologik – for Egypt and Our World
Global warming didn't pause at all during Cairo's recent rebirth. In fact, every month of inaction on Earth's climate emergency makes recovery that much harder and costlier.
The Flustercluck Doctrine
Comparative Suffering: Iceland vs. Ireland
A reader asked me a good question recently: Why do I have such kind words for Iceland's economic performance, when the decline in its gross domestic product was not …
Class Warfare, the Final Chapter
“There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.” -Warren Buffett to The New York Times, November 26, 2006 There …
Salary Ceiling, a Lever for Change
Over the last 30 years, disparities in income have exploded. While a big company CEO earned about 35 times the average salary of one of his employees during the …