One of the key campaign policies of then Senator Obama in the 2008 was a commitmment to Bipartisanship and Unity. 4 Years later and Bipartisanship is a failure and a skit on SNL. What happened and why? Here are three views on what happened. New York Magazine – Why Did Obama’s Bipartisanship Fail? The Guardian – Bipartisanship […]
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Given that US Banks have more money that they know what to do with [Wall Street Journal]; US Business Businesses are sitting on $5trillion hoard in cash[TheAtlantic] yet corporate taxes are not just declining but at their lowest levels in 60 years[Takethe5th]; and the very wealthy top 20% of Americans now command a growing wealth and
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Source: Salon.com What is fascinating to watch is how the Deep South changes and the Left Coast. South Dakota appears to be true Republican redfor the longest span while Also watch Indiana and Ohio change allegiances like a chameleon with indigestion.
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There is a great contrast today in the NYTimes Opinion Section. n one hand David Brooks speaks of the need for the audacious, Ayn Randian Job Creators championed by the Republican Party. In contrast, Paul Krugman argues that Republican policies are designed for the almost exclusive benefit of the wealthy with lower taxes on corporate
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There are three good report at theDailyBeast and CNN on the attack on the Libyan embassy tragedy. The first provides a reconstruction of the embassy attack and the now ongoing investigation. The fundamental problem in Libya is that after the disposal of the Qaddaffi regime, a national army and the disbanding of the different factional
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Update 5 Days Later Five days after the iPhone announcement, NYTimes Nick Wingfield helped to confirm our verdict with this story – The iPhone 5 that Apple introduced last week with only incremental changes seemed to signal that the industry has entered an era of technological bunny hops. Faster chips, bigger screens and speedier wireless Internet
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One can see why Wimbledon is the number one tennis Grand Slam match. First, there is the history – no small matter. Second there are the carefully manicured grass courts. Third by putting a retractable roof over its Centre Court, Wimbledon has guaranteed that their quarter final to final matches on both the mens and womans sides
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What was crystal clear in the speech by Bill Clinton at the Democratic National Convention is that the Republicans own the US National Debt. Bill showed that the US Deficits are Republican spawned. Bill alluded to the two critical reasons that the US is so heavily in debt. Both are Republican near treasonous actions. Starve
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Shark Week was last week and I am not talking about the GOP Convention. But Financial Shark Week is being resurrected this week in the Wall Street Journal and the NYTimes. It started with Andrew Ross Sorkin noting in the Dealbook section of the NYTimes, that Facebook’s IPO-Initial Public Offering of stock was priced too
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Windows 8 has received some very bad notices from diverse sources – John Dvorak at Marketwatch and a PC Gamer Tim Edwards among others are some of the salient ones. Despite these nay sayers ye Editor is very optimistic about the success of Windows 8. I think the nay-sayers are protesting too much about the learning curve for
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Takethe5th’s prognosis on Gun Control in the wake of the Aurora Massacre, Hey USA You’re in NRA’s Power Bang Killer Lottery Like It Or Not, has proven to be woefully accurate. There has been a chorus of no gun control across all of the media. NYTimes describes clearly the abdication of our political leadership.Now comes the clean
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Update: Breaking on July 17. 2012 the NYTimes finally recognizes the profound impact Coursera and other free online university offerings are having on undergraduate education. Read it here or follow Takethe5th.com and get the story 3 months earlier and with live experience nuances. This blog has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Coursera University Courses
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The Big 3 in Consumer Computing for the next 3-8 years have declared themselves. With Microsoft and Google now committing to hardware as well as software they have joined Apple as all-in in Consumer Computing. In effect the Apple Model, compete in any and all hardware and software segments while holding the critical OS keys
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The DOJ-Department of Justice when it won its Antitrust case against Microsoft also lost it at that moment because the officials involved had not agreed on a remedy for controling Microsoft. In the end it was $3 billion in fines and kid glove supervision by the Bush DOJ for 5 years. However, one remedy which
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With the announcement of Microsoft’s Surface, now all the major OS vendors have moved all-in in betting to take the Consumer Computing Crown. Microsoft Surface is more than a tablet – Surface Pro is a laptop PC No more side bets through proxy hardware or software vendors, Apple, Google and Microsoft are now building everything required for
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Instead of a growing buildup of excitement for Windows 8 since the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview in early March, there has been a growing crescendo of first alarm and then profound disaffection for Windows 8. And this litany is coming from mostly Windows loyalists. This is not good for Redmond. And it
Over the past half year, I have become a huge fan of theDailyBeast. theDailyBeast is the other website for Newsweek – very provocative and opinionated articles, thus in the manner of Fox New not bound by rigorous no-bias paternalistic standards of Newsweek. The difference between the two is the spice that makes the two work well together.
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Readers of this blog have seen at least a dozen articles about how the GOP is running of the the rails – no longer functioning as an an effective party in our political processes and sabotaging our Democracy. This is a very serious assertion. But take a look at the evidence: In A Two Party
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Adobe has not yet completely solved the problem of Steve Jobs and Apple. Steve unjustifiably killed Adobe’s Flash brand with his libelous accusations on the performance of Flash. See here for the all the details on how nefarious and self-serving Steve’s rants about Flash were but how NO-Flash presents problems for Apple. However, NO
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Bo Xilai is the displaced Chinese Communist leader who keeps giving. And in an indirect way he may be opening up China in ways that will be hard for the Communist Party to completely shutdown as 500 million bloggers and the Chinese equivalents of Twitter and Facebook plus the thousands of microsblogs continue to make
Update: May16th, 2012 Tom Friedman of the NYTimes is climbing on board and calling it a Revolution. See here. US Universities may have just crossed a tipping point – or should I say 4 tipping points. First David Brooks at NYTimes has written a Martin Luther-like manifesto calling into question the efficacy of college/university teaching
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One can tell the gold rush is on again on the Web to establish the next social media Instagram. What is different from 12 years ago at the apex of the Dot.com bust is the emergence of 3 things: 1)enormous computing IT capacity in 3 areas – chips + memory = cheap but huge computing power,
A computer operating system is very close to a natural monopoly. Controlling the dysfunctional effects of such monpolies has proven very difficult. A simple monopoly occurs when one supplier provides 60% or more of the product in a marketplace. Monopolies do not have to be dysfunctional. However, in profit maximizing markets there is a strong
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Henry McCracken at Time magazine has shown how to do computer technology predictions – although McCracken adamantly denies they are predictions. But actually they are deliciously witty, cleverly written yet clasically correct statistical forecasts. For under the guise of writing a)what we can assume will happen – the median value, b)what I hope will happen
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Some media argue that Occupy Wall Street, now that it has been disbanded will peter out and the group will have minimal influence. Don’t let anybody sell you that notion. The vote in Ohio on November 8th restoring Union Collective bargaining in state and local government showed that Occupy Wall Street had managed to change voting preferences.Suddenly
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PCWorld has a very revealing table on the top smartphones for this Christmas: Color coding of the best versus the lowest ratings is more revealing as Motorola’ s RAZR unexpectedly stands out with better weight and size dimensions and a key feature, MicroSD card which already allows adding of 64GB of storage for all those full
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Bloomberg has an interesting story of how political credit works => you get no credit for preventing something bad from going to worse. Case in point, Michigan auto-supplier E&E would have gone belly up – now it is doing $75million/year; up from $30 million and going under until Obama’s auto company rescue plan was passed.
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Ye Editor has previously put forward the idea that the GOP is coming apart at the seams and the only thing uniting the Republican party is the notion of making Obama a one term President. Now that the split in the House between the two factions in the GOP has become an open festering wound
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The Debt Ceiling Debate reveals the Republican Party coming apart at the seams. A previous post looked at the many contradictions and conflicting issues among the Republican “bases” which are now coming to the fore. In the Debt Ceiling Debate the powerful Wall Street and Business base is pitted against the conservative small business, fundamentalist,
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The following is a list of related stories at the Forbes.com website Monday Morning July 25, 2011 – the day after story about how the Debt Ceiling negotiations broke down and the Forbes’ commentary was on the repercussions of a default on the markets and the economy. But the related stories were the highlight for
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There is a little parable today on the blatant piracy taking place on Wall Street and the continued regulatory near-vacuum. Chris Pia of Moore Capital [$10B Hedge Fund]got caught in August 2008 “close banging” [ which is merely a trading artifice in which the closing price is manipulated by repeated barrages of buy or sell
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This is a Fake Apple Store in China There is a story circulating in the business press about a new case of blatant piracy in China – fake Apple Stores are cropping up all over China. For the past ten years since China was admitted into the WTO and obtained most favored nation status for
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