I recently heard a podcast about this commentary in BusinessWeek by Intel CEO Andy Grove. The Yanks can be a slow moving bunch but once they get the ship turned around, it can be a steamroller. I am growing increasingly…
Continue ReadingObama gives $2 billion to solar firms
There are a few things that are interesting about this story. First, it was crazy to think – now in retrospect – that Umoe Solar would be putting a plant like this in the Miramichi. There is way too much…
Continue ReadingGetting the economists engaged
This UNB prof is partially right. He is right to warn about the debt load but I still think that a 2 percentage point rise in the HST would be better than re-raising personal income tax. We can debate that…
Continue Reading‘Dis kapital
A series of conversations recently have convinced me that my messaging needs to be even more plain and to the point. My aunt told me she reads my column every week and enjoys it but “can’t understand a word I…
Continue ReadingOn the latest population figures
I’ll have more to say about this in my TJ column tomorrow but I’ll summarize a few points this morning. First, I think the new population statistics are encouraging so don’t get me wrong here. The population had been firmly…
Continue ReadingOn long term vision and high paying jobs
This story in the TJ is one that everyone should read. It’s a story about the Saint John municipal plan back in the 1970s and the forecast that the area was going to boom driving population growth to a quarter…
Continue ReadingDon’t mess with the Zohans in the Centennial Building
The TJ has an editorial scolding the public servants for watching the World Cup and bringing down the provincial servers. It’s kind of funny in the context of that Roger’s advertisment that runs all day reminding people they can watch…
Continue ReadingContinued calibration of the idea of the entrepreneur
21 Inc. posted the link to an interesting story on its Facebook page. It’s another attempt to classify different types of entrepreneurship. The author suggests that there are four distinct types of entrepreneurial organizations; small businesses, scalable startups, large companies and…
Continue ReadingThoughts on the Gulf
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an envrionmental disaster of unprecedented scale. It is causing massive hardship across the coast of at least four states. And the interesting thing is the polling data still shows significant support…
Continue ReadingExistential change
A journalist covering the last Tory leadership process in New Brunswick told me that he sensed the party was not going through an existential review process. The closeness and the way the last election was lost the Tory braintrust did…
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