Paul Krugman on the Future of the World Economy

Posted: December 19th, 2010
at 6:38pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: business,development
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US Now a Net Exporter of Solar
As the narrative that China has already won the the race for global domination in the clean energy sector dominates the news, a new study suggests that early reports of the demise of the U.S. solar industry may be greatly exaggerated.
TheAreport (pdf), published this week by GTM Research, showed U.S. net exports totaled $723 million in 2009 with U.S. solar installations creating $2.6 billion in direct value to the U.S. economy. And in the context of the broader economy, U.S. trade in the solar industry was found to be more balanced than the overall economy, which had a trade deficit of $374 billion in 2009.
"The U.S. imports and exports product from every continent. But in addition to being a major net exporter of solar energy products, the industry is creating significant wealth in the United States and jobs in all 50 states," said Rhone Resch, President and CEO of Solar Energy Industry Association, the largest solar industry trade association in the U.S.
Posted: December 19th, 2010
at 6:37pm by Koookiecrumbles
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Programming is hard enough, he said, that if you can find students who can wrote code, you should do whatever you can to encourage and develop them. We can teach style, presentation, and documentation standards to those students. Trying to teach more advanced programming skills to people who produce nice-looking programs but don’t seem to "get it" is much, much harder.
Posted: December 18th, 2010
at 8:09pm by Koookiecrumbles
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Today it's hard to get excited about Customer Support because of the kind of experience you get when you call in an airline or a phone company. We offer great support because we care and we think of customer support as our marketing investment.
Posted: December 18th, 2010
at 8:04pm by Koookiecrumbles
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How the iPhone Increases the Trade Deficit
Attention iPhone users who think their beloved device is only for video chatting,AAngry Birds, and the occasional phone call: it’s also capable of influencing U.S.-China trade relations.
That’s the conclusionAdrawn by two researchers at the Tokyo-based Asian Development Bank Institute, who estimate that Apple’s iPhone 3G added $1.9 billion to America’s trade deficit with China last year.
Why? Apple, which is based in the U.S., designs and owns the iPhone and largely manufactures its parts in a host of Asian and European countries. But traditional trade flow accounting recognizes the iPhone as a Chinese export because China assembles the parts and ships the finished product. China, in other words, receives full credit for an iPhone’s $179 wholesale price even though the assembly and shipping it provides represent a small fraction of the product’s total manufacturing cost.
Posted: December 18th, 2010
at 4:20pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: apple,cell phones,trade
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Open Source Creeps
A woman’s response to the feminist view of the open source community.
Posted: December 18th, 2010
at 4:09pm by Koookiecrumbles
Categories: not ninja-worthy,open source
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