Sunday, August 22, 2010 www.therocherecord.com ABC CHOOSES AMANPOUR. GOODBYE For 29 years I’ve been a loyal viewer of the ABC Sunday morning news talk show, “This Week.” From 1981 – 1996 it was “This Week with David Brinkley,” and I rarely missed a broadcast. David Brinkley, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, and George Will were a […]
THE ROCHE RECORD -COMMENTS ON CURRENT ISSUES Read More »
U.S. To Train 3,000 Offshore IT Workers Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English language. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek August 3, 2010 01:59 PM http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/integration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226500202 Despite President Obama’s pledge to retain more hi-tech jobs in the U.S., a federal agency run by a
U.S. FUNDS OUTSOURCING IN SOUTH ASIA Read More »
JUNE 28, 2010 Protests Rock Toronto Over Weekend Despite Stepped-Up Security Effort, Police Struggle to Halt Violence Near G-20 Summit, Arresting Nearly 600 By PHRED DVORAK And MONICA GUTSCHI TORONTO—The site of the weekend’s Group of 20 leaders’ meeting was rocked by some of the most violent protests to hit a global gathering in recent
JUNE 1, 2010 The New Cannery Row Congress wants $18 million to offset the jobs it destroyed in Samoa. Hidden inside the latest Democratic spending bill is an $18 million taxpayer handout to American Samoa. How did that get in there? Read on for another lesson in the uncreative jobs destruction of the minimum wage.
HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE MEANS MORE LOST JOBS Read More »
http://online.wsj.com/video/fujitsu-ousted-president-speaks-out/4C7D6466-D40B-4048-83F6-753755016C5F.html
THE WASHINGTON TIMES GOOD VALUE: REFLECTIONS ON MONEY, MORALITY AND AN UNCERTAIN WORLD By Stephen Green Atlantic Monthly Press, $25 288 pages Reviewed by Roger Lott (Mr. Green seems to think of the modern global economy as consisting of chains whose weakest links must be preserved to prevent the whole thing from coming apart. What
Book Review – Good Value – Faulty Argument for a New Capitalism Read More »
