the economy, stupid
Jul. 6th, 2004 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbThe Times Business section was unusually not dull this Sunday.
Chrysler's new CEO comes from a labor family, which he and the article's author see as a nice metaphor for increased cooperation between unions and management. It's not clear whether any union leaders other than his parents appreciate the poetry of it.
As the economy becomes less bad, Kerry has to shift tactics. Now that "the odds are rising that the president may squeak through with as many jobs at the end of his term as at the start, or almost as many"--a resounding endorsement I'd love to see in a Bush campaign ad--he can't simply point at the recession and say Bush is a failure. An article looks at some of the other economic and domestic issues Kerry is focusing on, like health insurance.
Comcast wants to provide video-on-demand interviews with Bush and Kerry. Also, Bono has joined a venture capital firm.
Randall Stross wants Apple to offer lossless compression for downloaded music. He's right that consumer choice is, in principle, good, and that iTunes MP3s sound worse than CDs, but he barely mentions the main reason music files are compressed: So you can have lots of them.
In other business news, my sister pointed out that everyone in our immediate family is currently "between jobs", one way or another--except Mom, who is simply retired.
Chrysler's new CEO comes from a labor family, which he and the article's author see as a nice metaphor for increased cooperation between unions and management. It's not clear whether any union leaders other than his parents appreciate the poetry of it.
As the economy becomes less bad, Kerry has to shift tactics. Now that "the odds are rising that the president may squeak through with as many jobs at the end of his term as at the start, or almost as many"--a resounding endorsement I'd love to see in a Bush campaign ad--he can't simply point at the recession and say Bush is a failure. An article looks at some of the other economic and domestic issues Kerry is focusing on, like health insurance.
Comcast wants to provide video-on-demand interviews with Bush and Kerry. Also, Bono has joined a venture capital firm.
Randall Stross wants Apple to offer lossless compression for downloaded music. He's right that consumer choice is, in principle, good, and that iTunes MP3s sound worse than CDs, but he barely mentions the main reason music files are compressed: So you can have lots of them.
In other business news, my sister pointed out that everyone in our immediate family is currently "between jobs", one way or another--except Mom, who is simply retired.
