Bill Gates on giving, batteries, tablets, and more
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, speaking to CNET reporter Ina Fried after his talk at the Techonomy conference last week. (Credit: Ina Fried/CNET) NEAR LAKE TAHOE, Calif.–Bill Gates says it’s gratifying to see the computer industry that he helped start turn some of its attention to broader societal challenges. “I think there’s increased awareness of using innovation to help in more than just profit making,” Gates told CNET in an interview on Friday, following his speech at the Techonomy conference .
Insurance company proposed 39% rate hike as executives got bonuses
Source of Article // Naples Homeowners Insurance WASHINGTON — Whilst Anthem Blue Cross proposed a 39 percent rate increase on numerous its California consumers, its parent business gave 39 of its executives additional than $1 million every single and invested much more than $27 million on 103 lavish executive retreats, congressional investigators stated Wednesday. “One [...]
Government can’t create wealth, only consumes it.
Posted on 30 November 2009 Note to Obama: Only Private Sector Creates Wealth, Jobs By Jack Kelly President Barack Obama has little interest in, understanding of or affection for free markets, so he fails to understand that the fundamental relationship between government and the economy is that of parasite to host. Some functions of government [...]
Japan’s election Lost in transition
Japan’s people are trapped in the past. Their new government must help secure them a future Reuters EARLIER this year, when Yukio Hatoyama set out to become Japan’s next prime minister, he called his campaign advisers and asked them to scrap one of the party’s main catchphrases on the grounds that it was too simplistic. [...]