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Archive for October, 2005
31
Oct
Places I have visited
“According to the UNHCR, Iran hosts more than one million foreign refugees – more than any other country on earth. Most of these are Afghans and Iraqi Kurds, who fled their countries during the 1980s and ’90s. Iran has in the past spent millions providing them with social security but in return it has acquired a huge workforce prepared to do manual labour for rock-bottom wages.” [via]
I wonder what this will mean for Iran’s economy. Assuming stability, does Iran have the capacity to be another offshoring venue of choice? Surely that could only benefit Iran and its people.
Although, could it be Tunisia?
24
Oct
Why do we need to save?
It would appear that we are all a bunch of consuming consumers. No-one ever saves anymore. I wonder if its something to do with the terrorist landscape or whether we all just like to have STUFF.
Why do we need to save anyway? My amateur economic brain thinks that in order for us all to be more productive, and produce more shit, we need to invest in capital. In order to invest in capital we need to access national savings, or go into debt. I suspect the latter is what is really happening. But why is that bad?
Economics is hard.
–UPDATE. We need to save because saving enables capital investment in which we are able improve productivity and thus GDP growth. I think.
–UPDATE 2. You can open the files below by using Mindmanager, a mindmapping tool (highly recommended)
15
Oct
John Bailey
I was informed this morning that John Bailey, my Entrepreneurship lecturer, was diagnosed with leukemia, and would not be teaching for the remainder of Semester. David Austin, clearly a close friend filled in admirably, although clearly shaken and challenged by the turn of events. David iterated John’s frame of reference: What is the opportunity? Admittedly, it seems hard to see what opportunities exist to seemingly exploit this tragic situation. The Entrepreneur has its own spirit. It invokes passion and positivity in the face of difficulty.
13
Oct
The Best of Economics
The Best of Economics appears to be a very handy reference for those nasty economic terms and phrases
Author/entrepreneur/blogger Seth Godin is getting ready to launch Squidoo, a place online where people can show off their expertise on whatever topic they like by creating well-organized starting points (or lenses) for those topics. Say you know a lot about barware and wine glasses, you will soon be able to start your own Squidoo page on the topic. It is sort of like About.com opened up to all comers. As VC Fred Wilson puts it:
Squidoo is about creating a peer produced network of personal landing pages about everything in the world.
Sounds fantastic! Almost like a mini web. Question remains how the information will be organised. [via]
11
Oct
Guiness Ad
Almost as good as the Carlton Ad. Guinness Ad
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06
Oct
The future of gaming?
I wonder if this is the future of gaming
Someone should do this for Australia call centres
