By PAUL KRUGMAN August 26, 2005 Source For the last few months there has been a running debate about the U.S. economy, more or less like this: American families: "We're not doing very well." Washington officials: "You're wrong - you're doing great. Here, look at these statistics!" The administration and some political commentators seem genuinely puzzled by pby archive - Archive
This is a global problem. There is no leadership, no wisdom, no sensing, no common sense, no critical thinking but just a lost elite and wondering people. The Cathedralmodel is broken. J. *** September 1, 2005 New York Times Editorial Source George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolaby archive - Archive
"It is so incredible that wherever prime raw material is discovered, systematically the locals die in misery, their sons become soldiers and their daughters are turned into servants and whores". This isn't Darwin's nightmare, it's our own 20 June 2005 Author: Howard Schumann from Vancouver, B.C. Source Slavery, colonization, genocide and civil war have marked the hisby archive - Archive
By Kurt Kleiner 30 August 2005 NewScientist.com news service Source Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true. John Ioannidis, an epidemiologiby archive - Archive
By Bruce Schneier Special to ZDNet UK September 01, 2005, 13:15 BST Source The Trusted Computing Group is an industry consortium that's trying to build more secure computers. It has a lot of members, although the board of directors consists of Microsoft, Sony, AMD, Intel, IBM, Sun, HP and two smaller companies that are voted in on a rotating basis. The basic idea is that you buby archive - Archive
Two research reports sponsored by IBM argue that Linux is less expensive to buy and operate than Windows or Unix. By Larry Greenemeier, InformationWeek Aug. 31, 2005 Source Just as the debate over whether Linux or Windows is cheaper to deploy and manage was threatening to become old hat, IBM on Wednesday fired the latest salvo by promoting two reports it sponsored that indicate Linux is signifby archive - Archive
Source Cornell University and Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a method for enabling a computer program to scan text in any of a number of languages, including English and Chinese, and autonomously and without previous information infer the underlying rules of grammar. The rules can then be used to generate new and meaningful sentences. The method also works for such data as sheetby archive - Archive
The Rude Awakening Wall Street, New York Wednesday, August 31, 2005 AN OIL PANIC IN PLAIN SIGHT By Sean Brodrick Source Hurricane Katrina delivered a devastating blow to America even before it slammed into Louisiana. The Massive storm smashed through "Energy Alley," a concentrated area of oil rigs off the coast that supply about 35% of America's domestic oil production and 20% oby archive - Archive
The Daily Reckoning Ouzilly, France Wednesday, August 31, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Addison Wiggin wrote this essay in while he was in New Orleans for the annual gold conference in November 2002. We thought with everything that has been going on in the past week with Hurricane Katrina that we should run it again... WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS by Addison Wiggin Source At the height of &quby archive - Archive
By Hannah Hennessy BBC News, Huaraz 25 August 2005 Source The stalactites hang like glass daggers over the glacial lake. Ice peaks rise against the bright blue sky like crystal pyramids. Mounds of dark rock rise up between the snow and ice, discoloured after years of being covered by the glacier. This is Pastoruri. In the past 10 years, its ice caps have retreated by about 200m. Soon it, likby archive - Archive
Toronto ON (SPX) Aug 30, 2005 Source University of Toronto researchers will demonstrate how a satellite the size of a milk carton that may revolutionize the space industry on Wednesday, Aug. 31, at 10 a.m. at University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) Lecture Hall, 4925 Dufferin Street. At only 3.5 kilograms, the Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment 2 (CanX-2) will test smby archive - Archive
By Sami Moubayed Aug 27, 2005 Source DAMASCUS - Iraq may not be able to export "democracy" to Jordan, but it already exports jihadis to the US's strongest ally in the Middle East. More than 10,000 soldiers and 300 surveillance towers are positioned along the Syrian-Iraqi border. Yet there's none of this on the Jordanian-Iraqi border, and battle-hardened veterans in the Iraby archive - Archive
The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies (And the Man Who Tried to Stop Them) By NATHAN THORNBURGH Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005 Source An exclusive look at how the hackers called TITAN RAIN are stealing U.S. secrets It was another routine night for Shawn Carpenter. After a long day analyzing computer-network security for Sandia National Laboratories, where much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal is designed,by archive - Archive
AP 2005-08-25 Source NEW YORK -- Moody's Investors Service yesterday became the latest credit rating agency to slash debt of both General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. to "junk" status, a move that will further increase borrowing costs for automakers. The New York-based rating agency cut General Motor's debt to below investment grade, or junk status, because of its conby archive - Archive
By Stephen Roach Aug 15, 2005 Source Ah, for the perspective of the summer break. For me, it came just in the nick of time. Not much has broken my way over the past few months. The soft patch turned out to be shorter and softer than I had thought, as the US-led global business cycle once again has demonstrated its time-honored resilience. This reflects what is by now an all-too-familiar themby archive - Archive
Deja Vu Voodoo Economics...or Supply Side Voodoo Black Magic... By - By Nouriel Roubini Jun 20 2005 Source I was yesterday morning on CNBC debating Arthur Laffer on supply side economics and the Bush tax cuts. Laffer is the father of the "Laffer Curve", the idea that tax cuts will not increase the budget deficit but would rather be self-financing given the strong suplly side responsby archive - Archive
Global Imbalances are Growing and Increasing the Risk of a Disorderly Adjustment and Hard Landing By Nouriel Roubini Created: Aug 24 2005 Source Last February Brad Setser and I wrote a paper on the risks of an unraveling of the Bretton Woods II regime and of a disorderly adjustment of the global current account imbalances. Since then the US dollar has sharply rallied and US long term interest rby archive - Archive
By DAVID WESSEL Motivating Workers By Giving Them a Vote August 25, 2005; Page A2 Source In the last century, corporate success often meant moving things around. Think Henry Ford's assembly line. Today, much corporate success, indeed much economic progress, depends on successfully moving knowledge around. Smart companies devote energy, money and consultants to "knowledge managementby archive - Archive
By Robert Roy Britt 24 August 2005 Source Small gullies on Mars were carved by water recently and would be prime locations to look for life, NASA scientists said today. There have been many studies of Martian gullies that concluded water was involved. But most of the features are ancient, or if they seemed modern then there were questions about how the water could stay liquid long enough to doby archive - Archive
From Mexico’s Most Hyped Drug War Battleground, an Interview with Raymundo Ramos, President of the Nuevo Laredo Human Rights Committee By Ricardo Sala Special to The Narco News Bulletin August 19, 2005 Source NUEVO LAREDO, TAMAULIPAS STATE, MEXICO: “There is a lot of cash in the drug business. It is a huge economy that is not being controlled. Or, better said, it’s getting out of control, and nby archive - Archive
History lessons, passed and failed Aug 25th 2005 From The Economist print edition Source Remembering, and rewriting, the past AUGUST, in eastern Europe, means anniversaries: the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939 that divided the region into Nazi and Soviet spheres of influence; the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961; the Soviet-led invasion of 1968 that crushed Czechoslovakia's Prague Spriby archive - Archive
The Daily Reckoning Baltimore, Maryland Thursday, August 25, 2005 The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Here at The Daily Reckoning, we are often told that our outlook on the world at large is too pessimistic - we were actually called "sourpusses" recently. We aren't alone - Marc Faber shares his views on being referred to as a "doom and gloomer"... THE PROPHETS OF DOOM AND GLby archive - Archive
By Hannah Hennessy BBC News, Huaraz 25 August 2005 Source The stalactites hang like glass daggers over the glacial lake. Ice peaks rise against the bright blue sky like crystal pyramids. Mounds of dark rock rise up between the snow and ice, discoloured after years of being covered by the glacier. This is Pastoruri. In the past 10 years, its ice caps have retreated by about 200 metres. Soon iby archive - Archive
Airborne drones, mimicking gulls, alter wing shape for agility Filed under Research, Engineering, Sciences on Tuesday, August 23, 2005. Source Morphing drones GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The military’s next generation of airborne drones won’t be just small and silent – they’ll also dive between buildings, zoom under overpasses and land on apartment balconies. At least, that’s what University of Floriby archive - Archive
China Hu's in charge Aug 18th 2005 From The Economist print edition Source China's president is increasingly revealing himself to be an authoritarian. IN THE nearly three years since Hu Jintao assumed the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, his image has changed markedly. Mr Hu was once seen by many as a potential liberal reformer—admittedly an assessment drawn from limiteby archive - Archive
Buttonwood Different this time? Aug 23rd 2005 From The Economist Global Agenda Source Foreigners are again pouring cash into emerging markets. What will happen when they stop? BUTTONWOOD was in the wilds of Guadalajara (Spain’s, not Mexico’s) last week, trying to keep teenage bikinis within the bounds of decency, when the latest twist in Brazil’s long-running corruption tale hit the press.by archive - Archive
By PAUL KRUGMAN August 22, 2005 Source The 2000 election is still an open sore on the body politic. That was clear from the outraged reaction to my mention last week of what would have happened with a full statewide manual recount of Florida. This reaction seems to confuse three questions. One is what would have happened if the U.S. Supreme Court hadn't intervened; the answer is that unlesby archive - Archive
By PAUL KRUGMAN August 19, 2005 Source By running for the U.S. Senate, Katherine Harris, Florida's former secretary of state, has stirred up some ugly memories. And that's a good thing, because those memories remain relevant. There was at least as much electoral malfeasance in 2004 as there was in 2000, even if it didn't change the outcome. And the next election may be worse. Inby archive - Archive
By Alex Cox Monday May 27, 2002 "Pirates," according to Bobbie Johnson in these pages last week, "are costing Hollywood billions in lost profits." Just as George W says we're either with him or against him in the war against evil, so the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) goes on the attack against those who dare to, uh, think different. The MPAA is a rich loby archive - Archive
AFX News Limited 08.23.2005, 01:42 AM Source BEIJING (AFX) - China has set up a lunar exploration centre in Beijing to spearhead the country's moon probe projects in its latest bid to secure its place as a major world space power, the official China Daily reported. 'The Centre for Lunar Exploration Program, approved by the State Council (cabinet) in January 2004, will design and carryby archive - Archive