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June 09, 2012
Silverman, Allen & Bruce
Posted by JD Hull at 12:09 AM | Comments (0)
June 08, 2012
China in Africa: China, Taxation & African State-Building.
See "Chinese Thinking on Taxation and African Infrastructure" at Deborah Brautigam's fine and much-needed China in Africa: The Real Story. Her recent post touches on road building in Kenya to points in South Sudan. Query: Are there any other blogs or resources on the important but mysteriously under-reported subject of China in Africa? We'd like to know.
Above from The Shanghaiist: "Fusing Africa and China through Design".
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 12:45 AM | Comments (0)
June 07, 2012
Bloomberg: Recession-spooked Americans cling to their current jobs.
This involves everyone working in, for or with an American-based business. It's about the saddest news Americans can get: a hard right jab to our spirit, moxie and ideal. See "Americans Cling to Jobs as U.S. Workforce Dynamism Fades". Excerpts:
The deepest economic slump since the Great Depression has left its mark on both job seekers and job creators, making them more wary about taking risks in a slowly recovering labor market.
Spooked by the severity of the recession and stuck with underwater home mortgages, Americans are less inclined to leave their jobs and less willing to strike out on their own to build businesses, government data show. Even with swelling profits, companies are holding back on hiring, complaining that they can’t find skilled workers for positions they do have open.
As a result, the labor market is losing some of the dynamism for which it’s long been known. And the trend predates the recession: An aging population and the growth of two-income households have reduced Americans’ mobility to about half of what it once was, while technological gains and globalization have led to a loss of middle-income jobs. The economic slump only exacerbated the loss of vigor.
Make yours Moxie anyway, Yank.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 10:51 PM | Comments (0)
June 06, 2012
Lagos, Nigeria: Abuja Investigates. Black Box to U.S. Dana Air Managers Bolt.
From All Africa News via The Leadership in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, see "Nigeria: Dana Air Indian Senior Managers Flee Country". Excerpts:
As Dana Air's woes continue to mount over its plane that crashed on Sunday in Lagos, its senior managers of Indian nationality have reportedly fled the country as Nigerian aviation officials investigate the cause of the crash.
Leadership gathered that the managers hurriedly fled because of the anger the death of more than 200 people has generated and the alleged Dana Air's complicity in the crash.
There are reports that the ill-fated plane was poorly maintained and in bad shape when it made its last flight.
Meanwhile, people living close to the place where Dana Air's Boeing MD-83 plane crashed have raised the alarm over the stench emanating from the site at the Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos State.
The residents of the densely populated area lamented that apart from the wreckage that still liters their vicinity, the offensive odour oozing from the site of the crash calls for concern over the state of health of those inhaling the stench.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
June 05, 2012
Simple Justice on Simple Clients and other Customer Life Forms.
There but for the grace of Karl Llewellyn go we. See Scott Greenfield's "The Unsophisticated Client". Excerpt on my notion of certain flora and Clients from Hell:
Many defendants are barely literate, if at all. Put papers before them with page after page of black marks on white and they are overwhelmed with your legal brilliance. They haven't got the slightest clue what the words mean, whether your caselaw is relevant or whether your argument holds any water at all, but they feel the weight of the paper, the see the exhibit tabs, they fondle the heft and are impressed. You produced all these pages just for them. You must be a good lawyer.
Ivy-educated Greenfield pre-2009 Bergen County shotgun accident.
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June 04, 2012
China adds Afghanistan to its smart, ambitious hit list for resources & global position.
Today Cairo, Tomorrow Kabul. And how many Yank and Brit lawyers are watching, engaged and poised to dive in? See Reuters: "China steps up Afghan role as Western pullout nears". Despite President Clinton's famous quip that "there's not much of anything to bomb", Afghanistan has natural resources out the wazoo--and it has strategic geographical position. China and its government get that. Resources: gold, silver, copper, zinc and iron ore in southeast; lapis, emerald and azure in northeast; petroleum and natural gas reserves (substantial but indeterminate) in north. Plus uranium, coal, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, and salt. In the middle of Asia, Afghanistan has been a portal of trade and migration for centuries. And it connects Asia with the Middle East.
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Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:59 PM | Comments (0)
60th Jubilee: In our book, Brits are tougher & stronger than Americans--and certainly more respectful of their history.
Been seeing it my whole life. Below in NBC photo: Yesterday Londoners wait for the second launch of 1,000 ships in 350 years on the River Thames. This time it is to celebrate Elizabeth II's 60th year as Queen. In America, this would be The Lost Barbecue Weekend, Price-Cut Madness or Tailgating Without A Point.
Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 09:27 PM | Comments (0)
June 03, 2012
Charles Thomas Munger: Tycoon, Sage, Piece of Work.
Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group, then to hell with them.
--Charlie Munger, 88, ex-lawyer, investor. Net worth: $1.5 billion.
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