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Category Archives: Business/Economics

GM is a disaster

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/12/news/companies/gm/index.htm?cnn=yes
How does one company lose so much frickin money? And where’s the outrage? Some people get outraged when companies like Exxon Mobil earn record profits. I get outraged when companies have record losses. Why? Because thousands, if not millions of families are severely hurt by incompetent management and operation.
I won’t say that this is all […]

Posted 12 February 2008 † peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

The hoax of the increasing gap between the rich and poor

Best column I’ve read in a while (it’s from the Economist, obviously). Does a good job of explaining why the increasing income disparity between the rich and the poor does not mean the rich are that much better off than the poor.
The new (improved) Gilded Age
Here are some snippets but please go read the entire […]

Posted 03 January 2008 † peter § Politics ‡ Comments (0) °

Gregg Easterbrook on the housing/mortgage “crisis”

In this week’s TMQ, Gregg Easterbrook has similar thoughts to mine with regards to the so-called housing and mortgage “crisis”. You can read the full column here, but I will post some choice snippets below (emphasis added by me). A lot of his thoughts that resonate with me relate to the troubling societal disregard for […]

Posted 07 November 2007 † peter § ‡ Comments (0) °

Growing inequality is not necessarily bad

I keep hearing all the time about how “bad” it is that the rich keep getting richer while the poor get poorer. I don’t think a lot of people really think about why they believe this is bad.
Here’s an overview of a NPR story that summarizes both sides of the argument:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7283485
As you can probably […]

Posted 09 October 2007 † peter § Faith ‡ Comments (0) °

If you have to tell people you’re cool, you’re probably not

The most well-known Peter Kim in the blogosphere (he also lives in the Boston area but works at Forrester Research) just wrote a post entitled “Chasing Cool”. I’ve thought about what he’s writing about in the past, as it relates to churches.
My problem with a lot of “emergent”/postmodern churches are that they try too […]

Posted 02 May 2007 † peter § Faith ‡ Comments (2) °