TCS Daily : June 2000 Archives
TCS Host Jim Glassman speaks with Rep. Dreier
Who is free trade's best friend in Washington? Well, you'd have a hard time finding a better candidate than Rep. David Dreier, a Republican from California's 28th District. A big fan of technology and free markets, Congressman Dreier is...
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Trial Lawyers Want Senate Seats
Mike Ciresi, as the lead trial attorney for your firm, you've just won a landmark lawsuit for Minnesota against Big Tobacco, earned $440 million for your firm, and made yourself a multimillionaire without giving even one final answer. What are...
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Can Technology Eliminate Gun Deaths?
Looking for an end to gun violence, various politicians are considering new laws to require gun-safety technologies - devices to ensure that a gun can only be fired by its rightful owner. One idea is to have a fingerprint scanner...
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Is the Phillips Curve Dead or Alive?
Alan Greenspan and his colleagues on the FOMC gather tomorrow to discuss the possibility of increasing interest rates for the seventh time in the past year. At the last meeting, when the Fed raised short-term rates a whopping half a...
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In the Chips
Semiconductors are the brains inside every digital device, whether it's a PC or a wireless phone. So if you're investing in technology, it makes sense to have some semiconductor stocks in your portfolio. The king of computer chips is of...
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Free Market Wins in Federal Court!
For several months, I've been warning investors about the increasing political risks facing tech stocks. On several fronts, lawyers and regulators have threatened new roadblocks to growth and innovation. This week, I'm happy to report that one potential threat of..
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Jim Glassman interviews Brink Lindsey
What's so bad about imports? Media observers tend to get very upset about America's trade deficit, but Brink Lindsey, who directs the Cato Institute`s Center for Trade Policy Studies, says that more trade, even trade with deficits, is good...
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Tech-friendly Senator pays price in union-friendly Michigan
How about some Osama bin Laden with your morning coffee? When readers of the Grand Rapids Press opened their newspapers on the morning of April 27, 1999, they were greeted by an advertisement with large, side-by-side photos of bin Laden,...
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The Beginning of the Decline and Fall?
Roman history tells us the story of how Tarquin the Proud became king in Rome. His father wanted to send his son -- who had been sent to another town -- a message on how to become a tyrant. Because...
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It`s Okay to Make a Profit, Even in Medicine
Most of us generally understand that a free market encourages people to create useful products and services. When you allow people to earn a profit from their inventions, they tend to invent lots of things. So in Silicon Valley, where...
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Wireless Bargains?
This is a column for long-term investors who believe that wireless communication will become a virtual necessity of modern life. If you believe, as I do, that eventually almost everyone will be chatting and web-surfing with small, portable devices, then...
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Is Your SUV Warming the Planet?
By driving your SUV, are you sentencing the planet to environmental devastation? Recently, the Clinton Administration released its National Assessment on Climate Change and America, a catalogue of potential disasters resulting from global warming. With admirable un
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TCS Host Jim Glassman talks with one of Americas most accurate economic forecasters, Brian Wesbury
With higher interest rates, is the economy slowing down? Where is inflation headed and what does it mean for tech investors? Will the Fed raise rates again or cut them in the next year? In the search for answers to...
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A Black Eye for Medicine
Computers change the way professionals work -- at least most professionals. Despite the mounting costs of heath care, computer assistance is sorely lagging in the huge industry. Twenty years ago when small computers first came out, there were several medical...
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Numbers Don't Lie in Net Tax Debate
Are online sales hurting state and local governments? Many of America's Governors say yes. In fact, it's the central message of the campaign for new sales taxes on the Internet: online shoppers are getting a free ride, depriving America's state...
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The Internet Killed Inflation
Several weeks ago, I was debating Bob Shiller, the author of the bearish book Irrational Exuberance, for Time magazine online. Nasdaq had just been pummeled, down about 2,000 points from its peak. Bob got to trashing the Nasdaq market, and,...
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Top 10 Tech Stocks
Two weeks ago, I wrote in the International Herald Tribune that big technology stocks were attractively priced. Since then, of course, many of the great tech names have rallied, but I still believe there are some good buys among the...
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The Internet Killed Inflation
Several weeks ago, I was debating Bob Shiller, the author of the bearish book Irrational Exuberance, for Time magazine online. Nasdaq had just been pummeled, down about 2,000 points from its peak. Bob got to trashing the Nasdaq market, and,...
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Shopping for Government
You can now shop for just about anything online, and the Justice Department's outrageous assault on Microsoft has illuminated what could be a hot new market in e-commerce: shopping for government. We'll call this the "g-to-b" phenomenon, for government-to-business
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TCS Host Jim Glassman talks with Jeff Rosen
With higher interest rates, is the economy slowing down? Where is inflation headed and what does it mean for tech investors? Will the Fed raise rates again or cut them in the next year? In the search for answers to...
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Information Age Economics
In the past decade, economic growth averaged more than 3% a year. The United States created 18 million jobs, driving unemployment down to a 30-year low of 3.9%. Recession receded into memory -- only eight months in 17 years. As...
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Kudos to ABC News!
TechCentralStation readers know all about the lobbying efforts by car dealers to prevent competition from direct sales over the Internet. And now ABC television viewers know all about it, too. In a recent broadcast of "20/20," ABC's John Stossel reported:...
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Digital Divide?
In a presidential election year a certain level of rhetorical excess can be expected, as politicians desperately need to explain to us how they can make our lives better. This year is no exception. Technology has become a hot topic...
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The World's Greatest Natural Resource
An article of faith among environmentalists is that population growth leads inevitably to disaster for man and nature. And slogging through Memorial Day traffic or strolling along a crowded shoreline, it's easy to think that the world is overpopulated. But...
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Riding the eBook Wave
Recently, a TCS reader asked my opinion of companies to watch in the field of ebooks. We're talking about books stored as digital data in a handy device, as opposed to printed on heavy paper. Last week, I answered the...
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The Last Mile
If you're like many consumers, you have a need for speed when you're online. You're tired of dial-up service over that old, slow copper telephone line running into your home and you want high-speed Internet access service. Well, for everyone...
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