Sleuthing Copper Prices

This article relates how a home repair trip to the hardware store, turned into looking for missing copper and Bush bashing. It unveils one of those hidden costs of war.

Prospect And Analysis Of China's Future Economy Growth

China will become the world's safest and largest investment economy in times to come given the following factors: huge market potential, rich labour resources etc. This article gives prospect and analysis of China economy in the next 15 years.

Online User Behavior and the Digital Divide

With the increased proliferation of ICTs in many newly industrializing nations research about the so-called digital divide should shift its focus from infrastructure to soci-cultural factors that influence Internet usage.

Should Dubai Ports World Deal Be Economy Or Security Concerned?

Wave of protectionism putting U.S. into economic down fall. US must attract foreign investors like Dubai Ports World deal to keep the dollars from falling.

Sprott Analyst Has Zero Doubt on Higher Natural Gas Prices

We talked with Sprott analyst Eric Nuttall. With bloated natural gas storage levels, Natural and CBM gas stocks have gotten crushed. Is there relief in sight? What are the fundamentals which might drive natural gas prices, and subsequently stock prices, much higher, and is this a good time to invest?

Government Certification Test Often Destroy Productivity

On-going education is important indeed and that goes for any industry. Knowing the rules and regulations is also extremely important and since the regulatory bureaucrats change the rules so often it is important to stay on top of all of them.

Central Pennsylvanians Complain About Economy

Many in Central Pennsylvania are complaining about the economy, while much of the rest of the nation enjoys positive growth. Things in Pennsylvania are in fact getting better, but it is taking time and thus there are folks there who are not...

Issues With Water Supply and Ethanol

If the United States of America is to remove the addiction to Middle Eastern Foreign Oil then we need to get serious about the effect of long-term droughts in the Midwest and the issues of water supply. In states such as North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas there can be serious long-term droughts, which will affect our ability to grow our own fuel.

Average Gasoline Prices Now at $3.00 per Gallon; New Record High

The American people have been told that the high cost of gasoline and fuel will not affect the economy. This of course is utter nonsense however there is something to be said for consumer confidence. Nevertheless, we find many

Coffee Shop Economics and Foreign-Policy

It is truly amazing to see what people really think about the war in Iraq and the price of oil in towns and cities across this nation. Many people simply take and the nightly news and adopt those opinions discussed on television as their own. However, there is a group of people who we should probably call the silent majority who feel otherwise. This group of real Americans is not swayed by the political correctness observed on television.

Baseball & Rawlings Bring New Meaning to Free Trade

It is not too late for MLB and its superstars to take a stand on workers’ rights, regardless of lax U.S. laws in the world of free trade and its agreements’ legal loopholes.

Is the WTO Really Failing

Some say that the World Trade Organization or WTO is failing? Is it really failing for everyone? It certainly is not failing for China, India and other exporting countries with lots of cheap labor. We see many nations with extremely high growth rates up near 10% per year and that is significant indeed.

Third World to First World in 4.5 Seconds; Not So Fast!

It takes a lot to go from Third World to First World and it seems that many countries are forced to do it much faster than they are either ready for or can handle. It takes many things to upgrade a civilization and it also takes a couple of generations.

Are We Moving Out Of The Service Economy?

Are we moving out of the service economy? This is a question of debate among some experts. Joseph Pine and James Gilmore, the two authors of a very interesting book named The Experience Economy, suggest that our nation is now moving away from the current service economy and into what they are calling the experience economy.