CAPITAL vs LABOR

rffrydr · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject:

Autos riding point on this issue. Ford tries to wring 30% out of autoworkers.
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rffrydr · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:00 am Post subject:

Where home is work and work is home, The 24hr Worker:

http://www.latimes.com/business/local/la-fi-timezone19jun19,1,4130175.story
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HenryTo · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject:

This is why there will be a huge demand for this kind of medication going forward:

http://www.marketthoughts.com/forum/eliminating-sleep-t4142,highlight,sleep.html

Forget the problems of the aging population, this will increase productivity of the average worker by leaps and bounds going forward.

HenryTo · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:36 am Post subject:

Unfair pay, safety, and health violations in our nation's restaurants is now in the spotlight:

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1636288,00.html

rffrydr · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:37 am Post subject:

The day of the speculator and financier is upon us! Check out the map of cross border financial holdings from 2004:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/518482b4-1dc5-11dc-89f7-000b5df10621.html
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HenryTo · Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:24 am Post subject:

Great summarization and great-looking charts.

But like it or not, this financial globalization trend is a structural - and still has much further to go before any new ideas are exhausted. There is really no use in resisting the inevitable.

rffrydr · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:40 am Post subject:

Conflict taken overseas with a new "twist" on Private Equity:

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aWmQutBeuUiw&refer=home
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rffrydr · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:27 am Post subject:

Barney Frank leads the charge against unreal real property market:

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB119302299446166800.html?mod=barrons_msn&ru=http://online.barrons.com/article/SB119302299446166800.html?

Author says the Street did it for the poor and unwashed--and then blames them! Markets clearly have a limit and Politics has its place.
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rffrydr · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject:

The world's wealth is as concentrated in the few as much as it ever was...only now disparity is cloaked in the banner of "Capitalism:"

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9d372b7e-8c9e-11dc-b887-0000779fd2ac.html

Market economies may have never been stronger but where is the entrepreneur? Innovation and markets are not complementary concepts.
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject:

Yet it's never been better to be the little guy (housing aside):

http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10328935
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rffrydr · Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject:

1998 taught economist there's more to economics than money as the IMF lost its way. In its place, "The Rule of Law." --then, the Rule of Property vs. the Golden Rule. We are a long way from Bill Clinton's china and russia. To what degree are we still lost?

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10849115
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rffrydr · Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:47 am Post subject:

Barney Frank's "Regulation of Risk"--it won't be the old bull again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/business/23regulate.html?em&ex=1206417600&en=722024502dde049c&ei=5087%0A
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rffrydr · Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject:

Global supply chains of just-in-time inventories have in some ways increased labour's hand. Computers, one notch more. Here applied to that den of labour iniquity, France:

http://images.thestreet.com/tsc/common/images/storyimages/spy0324.gif

We've got a labour report to get through: despite the robust push to unemployment in last month's report we stand a chance of pressure coming of from the financials.
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rffrydr · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:39 am Post subject:

Just like old times: axle strike at GM finds its way to cars, which hurts. Not half as much as the pain to this month's job report.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aZGCH6cfbXwM&refer=news
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HenryTo · Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

Chalk up another one for "capital." The UAW is now at its smallest size since the 1930s:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=abyDJ1SlWRb0&refer=home