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Re: CAFE, the same reasoning can be used for all sorts of government control of the marketplace. It sounds good on paper and in academic circles, but the end-result is the same: the people making the decisions are often wrong, and that ends up distorting the marketplace (i.e., what people actually want and are willing to pay for, in an efficient market). More

I agree that Reagan's ramped up military spending (which increased our national debt more than 300%, by the way. a FAR larger percent increase than Obama) represented the writing on the wall for the hard-line Soviet leaders. They knew the game was lost. But oddly, the US has blindly maintained Reagan's overbudget expenditures as if the Soviet Union More

Mr. Thomas, You are missing the whole real debate. There is real leadership traits in the White House but every time the Democrats concede on spending, the Republicans stand strong against tax increases. Leadership is not the issue...it is bad leadership and while you talk about a balanced budget, you conveniently and irresponsibly neglect increasing More

At this point I don't how this going to come out, as for the President, I already think most the voters clearly think he has done at best a poor and very costly job, and frankly see him as politician they cannot team trust. The big problem is they don't trust the Republicans or Democratic politicians in Congress to solve the deficit problem that just More

The famous photographer side of me wants to see Kodak make it just because it's an American icon. The business side of me doesn't see that happening unless they find a buyer for the brand and scrap the losing business. This goes to show how one management decision (to not run with digital) can derail a major company. The same has happened or is happening More

When I went how to calculate roi school we were taught about probability. Let take a look of at this in light of what happened: 1. Leak happened shortly after announcing additional areas to be opened. 2. There was a failure in blowoff preventer. 3. Warning data or information was ignored 4 Happened in the Gulf Coast area-USA 5. BP responsible, More

Paki have no friendsstanis said they are our friends and are on our side when Bush made this threat back in 2001. But are they really our friends? They lied to us for 10 years. And now the WSJ editors would like us to believe them again? The nation calls itself an Islamic republic and openly insults non-Muslims. Even a poor Christian woman can not More

I agree with your wheel-and-spoke analogy, certainly it should be the ultimate marketing goal of every business to have a professionally-designed website. But, professionally-designed websites start at a price point that many new small business online marketing business owners can find hard to swallow. So, why not start with the free options? The added More

LCD screen was invented by James Ferguson in 1970, Kane Kramer a British scientist invented the 1st portable media player, before him Philips and Nagra and Uher, Dutch, German and Swiss companies respectively had a type of portable reel-to-reel tape player, Philips had the first mobile cassette tape player. IBM had the first all transistor sales tax More

This an ethnic confrontation of a finding inner peaceful demonstration in Norway. A results of evil Norweigen communist government oppressing freedom. If you take Mr. Nobel too seriously, his yellow peace loving explosives are having fun with ya. Norway eventually will have make peace with Mr. Nobel, who invented yellow peace powder killed millions More