Underfunded Federal Mandates Belie Port Security

There is no shortage of discrepancies as concerns the operations of the U.S. Coast Guard with respect to security operations.

Economics: The Dismal Science

A potted history of Economics. Sketching the input of great economists from Adam Smith to Marx It is debatable whether economics should actually be defined as being a science. A science like math or physics usually gets its satisfaction from proving something to be irrevocably true. Solve a complex equation and QED that's the answer, there's no argument. Economics on the other hand will rarely give us a simple answer. Ask 5 economists a question and you'll get 6 different answers.

Economics and the Ranting Public

Today you can go on any Blog and hear the critics criticizing economic policy and the Bush Administration. Yet, our unemployment rates are so low and our GDP so high it is hard to find fault. Of course one could perhaps call question to the trade deficit

Insourcing of Foreign Students & Engineers Top U.S. Priority

Much like all other sectors of our government as well as commercial industry, both lawmakers and CEO’s myopically concentrate on the bottom line, while the U.S. educational system is being systematically abandoned and essentially dismantled.

Do Not Lease Space to Dubai World; Sell Phone Companies to France and Ports to China

Well isn’t it interesting all the sound and fury over the Dubai Deal and now we find out there are 24-million illegal aliens in out country and the Senate wants to now make them citizens, And we find we have sold an entire port to Red China.

Transit Strikes Screw Over People and the Flows of Civilization

There have been quite a few very high-profile transit strikes in the last couple of years. We had a big one here in NYC and there was another large one in Los Angeles at the RTD. Marta also had a strike and Atlanta was out for over a week.

World Bank Moving Into Iraq

The World Bank is setting up shop in Iraq and now the anti-everything crowd is calling foul? They are the anti-establishment, anti-US, anti-Bush Administration, anti-gobalist and anti-corporation crowd.

Example Of Forex Fundamentals: China's Economy Overview.

The major emerging industrial power in today’s world is China, with an economy that has been growing in giant steps over the last decade and the first half of this.

The 3 Paradigms of Society and how they view Criminals

Society views criminals in different ways. How do people of different paradigms view criminals?

Foreign Online Anti-American Interests Say US is Dead Due to High Oil Costs

The Iranian government is using bloggers to purport misinformation about the US economy and scare Americans into thinking America is weak. In fact they are going out of their way to use this psychological negativity to their advantage.

Lance Rants on $70.00 per Barrel Oil Prices

We here we are, we hit seventy dollar per barrel oil prices today. Predictable? Indeed, and yes I had been predicting that previously as you know. But it will not stop here as we see Hurricane Season is on its way and if it is anything like the 2005 Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season

Complaining About Fuel Prices as History Repeats? Lance Rants

In 2000 and 2001, which really in the timeline of our civilization is more like yesterday fuel prices were a disaster in CA, we had a mandatory diesel engine emissions statue for vehicles over 14,500 GVW. And EPA causing underground tanks to be dug up everywhere.

Poverty Alleviation: An Aim Of Islamic Economics

This articles explains the basics of Islamic economics and the objective of it. It explains how the instruments of Islamic economis works in eradicating the world poverty.

About Spain - Some Business Statistics and Tendencies

According to the authority on Spanish statistics (INE), Spain accumulated 2.942.583 companies in January 2004. This represents about 7.2 companies for each 100 inhabitants (which is nearly double the amount of the number in the Netherlands, which is 4.0) It is generally a known fact that in Spain the Small & Medium Businesses (SMB) outnumber any other business. Less well known is another interesting figure...