Blog posts in Commentary

Lessons for China in Malaysia Past

Posted January 17, 2010

KLCCMust of the frustration that western countries are facing in China is similar to the same problems that companies faced in Malaysia in the 1970s with Malaysia's Bumiputera laws. These laws required all international companies in Malaysia retain a certain percentage of Malaysian Malay ownership in-or…

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The China Tech-Effect

Posted January 14, 2010

China is offering something that the West hasn't really been able to manage - cheap and easily available technology components and manufacturing facilities. This leads to a large number of imitation or fake products, but also holds promise for something more. Recently a writer at the New York Times …

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A Crime In Any Other Industry

Posted January 11, 2010

In any other industry, the sky-high profits of the finance sector would be a sign of Organized Crime or a Cartel. Only drug-lords and colluding companies can lock in market share and price-fix in such a way that one dollar in labor and materials can equal one thousand in profit.

How are the mega bon…

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Doing Less with More

Posted November 22, 2009

We have been sold a scam and I really want to know who is behind it. We were told that with hard work and sweat we would get ahead. We would make a difference and change the world. But as the years come and go, I am becoming much more cynical. We just seem to be getting farther from that goal. We ar…

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Control your Diet with Less and More of What you Already Have

Posted November 14, 2009

Every day I turn on the tube or google around it seems there is some new diet / health fad that helps people who mindlessly follow it and robs the rest of us. Here's something to chew on - killing yourself on the treadmill won't kill those pounds any better than sitting on the couch or cleaning the …

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Too Many Jobs, Too Few Careers

Posted September 14, 2009
jobhuntingsucksThe world is in a recession, millions of people are out of work and there don't seem to be enough jobs to go around... Or are there? Everywhere we walk there are help-wanted signs in store windows, newspapers and everywhere online. So what is wrong, why are so many people out of work?

We are sufferi…

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The Three Chain-Mail Profiles

Posted June 20, 2009

I am a Blocker (and a recovering Helper). I have never been a Pusher. When it comes to Spam and Chain-Mails, maybe it is time we started to look at the personalities that encourage people to do what they do.

During the last few years when I have been actively blocking chain-mails and fighting back ag…

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