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Beginning to End the Great Recession

Beginning to End the Great Recession

By Denis Pombriant on May 21, 2012

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is in trouble.  So is David Cameron, Prime minister of Great Britain though not as much.  Merkel has an election looming and both have been caught on the wrong side of the most important political-economic issue of the generation, the continuing depression and joblessness plaguing Europe and to a lesser […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Austerity, Current Affairs, economics, G8, Hollande, keynes, Krugman, macroeconomics, Merkel, obama, Sarkozy, stimulus | 5 Responses

Economics On The Ground in Silicon Valley

Economics On The Ground in Silicon Valley

By Denis Pombriant on October 21, 2011

The economy appears to be on the minds of magazine editors these days and no wonder.  With the stimulus running out the economy appears to be headed south again.  This contradicts my experience last week in Silicon Valley where the CEOs I met with said they were, 1)   Raising more money, not because they need […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Current Affairs, economics, keynes, salesforce.com, Silicon Valley, stimulus, The Economist, The New Yorker, unemployment

The Stimulus Backlash

The Stimulus Backlash

By Jeff Nolan on November 23, 2009

It appears that one very significant problem that the Administration and the Federal Reserve created, a frightening spike in unemployment, is the result of a massive miscalculation about how the staggering borrowing by the government would play out.

The Fed endorsed a policy of record borrowing under the theory that we were at risk of a […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Federal Reserve, federal spending, geithner, Government debt, Ron Paul, stimulus, unemployment | 1 Response

IBM’s Smarter Utility play: Solutions Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework (SAFE)

IBM’s Smarter Utility play: Solutions Architecture for Energy and Utilities Framework (SAFE)

By James Governor on October 30, 2009

Jeff Smith is an old buddy of mine, so its good to see him leading an IBM vertical play that aims to make asset and service management an awful lot more efficient in the utilities industries. Jeff has a solid background in automation from his time at Tivoli, IBM’s management systems management arm, so […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Energy, ibm, redmonk, smarterplanet, smartgrid, stimulus, Sustainability, utilities

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