This Old World
The blog post is a review of the book "Shock of Gray" by Ted Fishman. It is about the aging of populations and the implications that this has on the global economy. The populations of the elderly will increase around the world into the future. This, combined with declining birthrates, will mean that industrialized nations will require foreign workers to allow economic growth. For example, five percent of Ecuador's population lives in Spain to care for that country's elderly. What real economic impacts will this have on the everyday lives of Americans? How can the author be so sure that technology will not balance out the negative effects of an elderly population? Salon.com writes about the book. They disagree with the notion that older people are necessarily bad.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
IR Blog Post 1 - autoblog.com
Report: Ford Explorer orders nearly double expectations
Ford dramatically changed the body design of the 2011 Ford Explorer from the body-on-frame construction to a unibody structure. Ford is reporting that the change toward a crossover design is not turning away buyers. Ford received about 15,000 orders for the Explorer, doubling their original projections. Jason Mase, Ford's manager of utility vehicles, said that most buyers don't care if the Explorer is a crossover or an SUV. How will the overall sales measure up to past years Explorer sales? Why were Ford's initial projections so inaccurate? The LeftLane News Blog writes that Ford has changed the design of the Explorer in order to appeal to buyers of crossover SUVs.
Ford dramatically changed the body design of the 2011 Ford Explorer from the body-on-frame construction to a unibody structure. Ford is reporting that the change toward a crossover design is not turning away buyers. Ford received about 15,000 orders for the Explorer, doubling their original projections. Jason Mase, Ford's manager of utility vehicles, said that most buyers don't care if the Explorer is a crossover or an SUV. How will the overall sales measure up to past years Explorer sales? Why were Ford's initial projections so inaccurate? The LeftLane News Blog writes that Ford has changed the design of the Explorer in order to appeal to buyers of crossover SUVs.
IR Blog Post 1 - biggovernment.com
Please Don't Profile: Muslim Foreign-Born Teen Tries to Blow-up Christmas Tree Lighting
A Somali-born 19 year old man named Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested on Friday after attempting to set off a bomb at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. The attack was actually a set-up by the FBI. He had communicated with Federal agents in constructing the explosive, which ended up being a fake. The White House spokesman says that President Obama was aware of the attack. When Mohamud attempted to dial his cell phone for the bomb to explode, Federal agents arrested him. Mohamud repeatedly screamed "Allahu Akbar!" as he was taken into custody. How long will Mohamud go to jail for? Are there other Muslim terrorists connected with him? Carl Cannon, the editor of politicsdaily.com wrote a blog post about the root causes of this attack. I agree with his contention that Muhamud's attack originated with Somali radicalism.
A Somali-born 19 year old man named Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested on Friday after attempting to set off a bomb at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. The attack was actually a set-up by the FBI. He had communicated with Federal agents in constructing the explosive, which ended up being a fake. The White House spokesman says that President Obama was aware of the attack. When Mohamud attempted to dial his cell phone for the bomb to explode, Federal agents arrested him. Mohamud repeatedly screamed "Allahu Akbar!" as he was taken into custody. How long will Mohamud go to jail for? Are there other Muslim terrorists connected with him? Carl Cannon, the editor of politicsdaily.com wrote a blog post about the root causes of this attack. I agree with his contention that Muhamud's attack originated with Somali radicalism.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
The Blogs that I am Following
Arts and Academia: New York Times Books http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/Books.xml
History, Politics, and Current Events: reason.com (a libertarian blog site) http://feeds.feedburner.com/reason/Articles
Sports, Entertainment, and Leisure: Autoblog http://feeds.autoblog.com/weblogsinc/autoblog
History, Politics, and Current Events: reason.com (a libertarian blog site) http://feeds.feedburner.com/reason/Articles
Sports, Entertainment, and Leisure: Autoblog http://feeds.autoblog.com/weblogsinc/autoblog
Monday, November 15, 2010
Online Reading
I do a great deal of online reading. I get the majority of news from Yahoo.com, The Drudge Report, and the Huffington Post. I typically read weekly columnists including Charles Krauthammer, Pat Buchanan, John Stossel, and Paul Krugman.
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