TCS Daily : April 2010 Archives
Why Abusing Customer Service Representatives Makes Economic Sense
If you live in the western world and can breathe, you are a victim of "customer service hotline syndrome". Apostrophes are essential with this triple-misnomer: You are not treated like a customer, calling the response you get--if you get one--"service" is a supreme
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Five Myths About Green Energy
Americans are being inundated with claims about renewable and alternative energy. Advocates for these technologies say that if we jettison fossil fuels, we'll breathe easier, stop global warming and revolutionize our economy. Yes, "green" energy has great emotional
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Money and Ruin
In its beginning money had intrinsic value. Money was valued for itself, not just for what it could buy, as it was made of precious metals. But as history transpired money became almost abstract. First, money's metals became less precious,...
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America's Constitutionalist Revolt
So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying. We know that this is a decentralized grassroots movement, with many different...
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America's Constitutionalist Revolt
So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying. We know that this is a decentralized grassroots movement, with many different...
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The United States Is the New Europe
Many of President Obama's advisers want America to emulate Europe. That is, after all, where health care is free, where taxes are high but no one seems to complain, and where the brightest students go to work for the government...
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How to Tweak America's Immigration Policy
In the current issue of "BusinessWeek," Michelle Conlin writes that the percentage of top MBAs from U.S. universities who are taking jobs in Asia has more than doubled since 2005. It's now over 10 percent of the graduating class. What's...
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Cowboy Monetarism
Thomas Hoenig, head of the Kansas City Reserve Bank, is truly a new Fed superstar. I encourage all of you to read his recent speech in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he calls for an immediate tightening of the federal...
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Decrying the Union Pension Bailout Bill
Some members of Congress seem to like putting taxpayers on the hook for practically unlimited liabilities. The latest Congressional Budget Office forecasts 2020 public debt climbing to 90% of GDP under President Obama's 2011 Budget. This is not enough for...
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A Note to Conservatives on the Cyclical Rebound
Sometimes you have to take your political lenses out and look at the actual economic statistics in order to gauge whether we're on the road to recovery or not. Without getting personal, I'm watching many of my friends on certain...
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