re AMERICA'S SWEATSHOP DIPLOMACY NYT

What a pathetic situation and history.


Other whole agendas going on here as well.


The Gobble economy.


A video reference:
Lucy's Candy factory job.

EXIT JOBS TO ASIA THREE BITES OF THE APPLE

SEE STEINGART'S CHAPTERS

Chapter 5. 


Especially The Great Knowledge Transfer, especially Vorndran's quote p. 166, The Next Einstein Will Be Indian, "Go Out...", The State as Protector, Losers and Winners, etc.


University degrees granted here to advanced subjects, especially troubling, going forward.


I am not especially liberal about it.

RE MARKET POWER AND TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND OTHER ISSUES CALL IT SOMETHING REAL CALL IT SHAKE DOWN ECONOMICS

Re Apple, China, and Samsung, etc., etc.:


Imaginary dual soliloquies:
American savvy, sassy, MNC executives: "Let's start producing, or continue producing, in Asia, or India, as the labor costs are so darn  low, and profitability is our main criterion."


Asian political leaders: "Let's give these idiotic American companies low labor costs for a little while, while we are taking everything useful regarding their products and techniques, and market information, from them. 


Then we will simply undersell them on foolish laissez faire world markets, and take over these foolish gringos' world, then enslave, and perhaps also kill, a great many of these idiots."

What is going on now, with the shift already far advanced in so called market power, 

we are seeing the emergence of powerful leverage in Asian economies against foreign companies and their weak regimes, and their products and markets.

I would call it, at this point, not merely not trickle down economics, 

or trickle away, 

or torrent away, 

but something more realistic, more somber, 

in line with Steingart's epithet, "attacker countries".

I would call it now 


dumb and dumber 


shake down economics.

Terms search: human conflict, leverage, trading places, dumb dumber, etc.

NOW THEY ARE STARTING TO SPEAK MY LANGUAGE AT LEAST IN EUROPE EMBARGO

http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2973239501462830480&postID=709842635986855709

Sea lanes starting to have a little 'impact', shall we say.


Fattening things up, so to speak.

FOR DOD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

RE SAMSUNG APPLE AND EVERYTHING ELSE GOBBLELIZED GOBBLELIZATION

Almost nothing is going to be worth much of anything, going forward.


That is globalization of intellectual rights, going forward.


Forget about R & D, long term investment in tech, things like that.


Waste of time, going forward.


These things are all being gobbled by hungry regimes and their champions.


Really.


Terms search: history human conflict, shakedown, shake down

RE ALLISON BEFORE 1776 AND MISPLACED PATRIOTISM

Just a brief plug here for this great course.
His lecture on The Sugar and Stamp Act, great.


See especially the account of efforts by Johnson to collect a little sugar tax from the denizens of Rhode Island, Newport in particular. 


Truly great stuff. 


Debunks a lot of nonsense that comes out of the mouths of reenacters and many many others.... 


call it misplaced patriotism.

RE GOBBLELIZATION DUMB AND DUMBER GLOBALIZATION

See other blog.


TERM SEARCH HERE: 
HUMAN CONFLICT

RE CHINA BLACKLISTING CERTAIN INTERNET MATERIAL

Gaga, Back Street Boys, Perry,


I tend to agree with them, 


not us.

RE LIBYA

Please!


What nonsense.

RE WIDESPREAD GLOBBALIST IDEOLOGICAL FREE FALL

And guru dom is wondering about the likely effects of Bernanke's remarks at Jackson Hole.

RE BRETT ARENDS WSJ FINANCIAL GURU DOM AND GOLD

Great article.


Comical really, gurudom, 


going forward.

RE CHAVEZ VENEZUELA GOLD

Repatriation: who can blame them?

RE NOCERO NYT THE DEMOCRATS AND BOEING

He is trying to make this a partisan issue, when it is rather a structural, federalism, one, 


given the multi state system we have, and Washingtom versus North Carolina, etc 


and little to keep plants on shore anyway. 


He must know this, but he has been given his orders here.


Term search: Boeing, your state, 88 Cent Stores, pawns, Costco.


I had mentioned the Boeing issue in an earlier post, re new Boeing plants in China. 


Notice he does not mention this enormous fact in the article.

A TRIBUTE TO PITTMAN BLOOMBERG VERSUS FOX and WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH GOLD

http://www.realecontv.com/videos/government-corruption/mark-pittman-1957-2009.html

Here's a nice summary of things re the gold issue:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/289209-gold-still-on-its-way-to-5-000

Interesting facts re what certain central banks have been doing lately, Venezuela, S Korea, etc.

GADDAFI IS ANOTHER SIDE SHOW IN THE STRUGGLE NOW UNDER WAY

Call it 'Sarajevo' IV or V.


After Iraq, or the new Egypt and Israel tryst, 


or Turkey and Syria, 


or India and Pakistan,


or North Korea taking over joint resort property,


or China in S China Sea,


or the UK and Ireland,


or... fill in the blank,


why does anyone think any of these will end well?

The audience

See David Kaiser's current post The Two-party System

and comments.

TORRENT AWAY ECONOMICS

Great turn of phrase, I think.


But, hey, I composed it!


But here's someone who thot of something similar already:


http://crookedtimber.org/2004/08/12/heres-your-fucking-latte-sir/

JO'N 08.12.04 at 1:25 pm

Real income growth of 0.3% per year? That really is a trickle, isn’t it—so there’s a reason they don’t call it “torrent down” economics.