Class Warfare American Style
5 January 2010Jesse (aka Arthur Cutten) on learning of the recent GSE bailouts from Matt Taibbi on the criminal nature of the US financial services community. Hilarious rant, close to the truth or has Arthur spent too much time in a less class divided Europe?
Extract:
For me the basic dynamic of the mortgage bubble is some Ivy League [...]
The bankers who wouldn’t say sorry: a cautionary tale
29 December 2009There was a time when naughty boys
Would have to forfeit all their toys,
And go to bed without their food
To force a new, repentant mood
Upon the wretched little toads,
Who flouted our great social codes.
But there’s a price we all will pay If politicians won’t display A little courage and crack down Upon these unsafe, grasping clowns: [...]
The Future From Down Under
25 August 2009From NPR & KPLU Radio:
KPLU’s technology commentator, Mark Anderson [of Strategic News Service], has just returned from Down Under, where he took part in the Australian American Leadership Dialogue, and met with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Mark tells KPLU’s Dave Meyer that Australia’s economy is healthy, and the country is about to pull ahead of [...]
Prediction: Tech Sector Will Recover First
30 June 2009From NPR & KPLU Radio:
On this month’s Future in Review with Mark Anderson [of Strategic News Service], Mark predicts the technology sector will recover before the rest of the economy does. He tells KPLU’s Dave Meyer to keep an eye on computer chip sales.
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The Good News, and the Bad News
16 June 2009The good news is so obvious that half of the stories in the media are completely missing the point:
We have likely avoided global economic oblivion. The Republicans, who are largely at fault for this horrible experience, have been incessantly whining about spending, self-dealing, and anything else their focus groups can come up with: how truly [...]
World on Fire – Notes and Impressions from FiRe 2009
3 June 2009Guest blogged by Glen Hiemstra, Founder & Owner, Futurist.com
Last week included four eventful days at the annual Future In Review conference put on by the Strategic News Service. This year, the last at San Diego’s Hotel del Coronado [FiRe 2010 is moving to the Terranea; future FiRe locales aren’t yet scheduled – Ed.], was the [...]
The New New Deal
7 May 2009Guest-blogged by SNS Member Russ Daggatt
Former New York Senator and UN Ambassador, Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
Increasingly, it seems, Republicans are trying to create not only their own facts but their own reality. This is particularly problematic when the mainstream media treats every [...]
An Open Letter to the Board of Directors
5 May 2009From NPR and KPLU Radio:
Corporate CEOs are getting a lot of the blame for the economic meltdown. But what about the people who hire and fire them? Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson shares his Open Letter to the Board of Directors with KPLU’s Dave Meyer.
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Mark Anderson on KVOS
2 February 2009Watch Mark’s interview on KVOS
Mark Anderson, from Strategic News Service from ENW with Deb Slater on Vimeo.
Mark Anderson: Layoffs don’t help the economy
1 February 2009From NPR and KPLU Radio:
The recession continues to take its toll on jobs. This week began with news of more than 75-thousand layoffs at companies such as Home Depot, Caterpillar and Texas Instruments. Then Boeing and Starbucks announced plans for nearly 17-thousand layoffs. Last week, Microsoft announced its first-ever major layoffs.
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