The secret is out: Apple has a worm inching its way through its corporate flesh. January was a tough month on the Cupertino, California company venerated for its innovation and vision. The controversy emerged when an Apple contractor in China, a manufacturing facility known as Foxconn where many brand-name electronics are assembled largely by hand, …
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The Man Who Foretold Our Economic Fate
The rhyme and the reason behind the lingering Great Recession spelled out 13 years beforehand by a billionaire who also correctly predicted the 1987 stock market crash. The housing bubble predicted six years before it burst by a prescient law school professor and Obama Administration financial reform advisor…
Rethinking Globalism: Why We Need a Cell-Based Economy
What this worldwide recession proves: Globalism is a fatally flawed model in the present economic and ecologic sense. Protectionism may not be the answer, but nor is leaving one's country ripe for manipulation at the hands of commodities and foreign currency traders, resource shortages and above all too-close-to-the-bone ideas about corporate "efficiency" that make transcontinental supply chains so perilously thin and easy to disrupt. Why we need a cell-based economy. Stat.