Just Ask Oldguy

Dear Oldguy,

Here in the US, some pundits have been complaining about the high cost of labor and how it’s reducing our competitiveness compared to dirt cheap labor in Asia.

If that’s true, wouldn’t there be an even bigger concern for Western Europe, with all the social programs and generous mandatory vacation time? Is it really a problem for them, or are they doing just fine with the status quo?

(Incidentally, the forum says this thread is up to 1000 replies!)

How can you deliberatley practice business. Especially for the 10000 hours needed for mastery?

HBS interjected: OldGuy-

What are your thoughts on a one-world currency? Good, bad, other? Just curious as to your opinions on it.

NCAA Men’s Basketball. It’ll be easier to pick one next week, when the bracket is set.

OldGuy-

It’s March, which means it’s tourney time!!. Who’s your pick for the Div. 1 Men’s title?

-J

Old Guy,

Do you think the American people could honestly follow Ron Paul? Here’s a quote from his web site:

We believe that freedom is an indivisible whole, and that it includes not only economic liberty but civil liberties and privacy rights as well, all of which are historic rights that our civilization has cherished from time immemorial

This very notion is challenged every day and is currently being challenged in court in San Francisco (one example). American’s are a nosey breed and I don’t think that’s even possible to break.

I decided to peek in and see if the board was doing anything in between rounds of trying to squash peeps in pseudo-politics, and lo and behold the old guy writing interesting things, ah is good to be back…

Magnus.

Magnus Thornwood interjected: So old guy, how do I get my old PMs?

I see the notice but can’t get to them.

Thanks,
Magnus.

Allen interjected: That’s a good question! They still exist, but the way phpBB works is that if you disable sending them, you disable seeing them. Since I want to enable sending them, I guess the answer is, bug Allen to upgrade phpBB so he can enable them. This would also fix the comment border problems. Yes, I am a bad person.

Magnus Thornwood interjected: Thanks for the info!

And as far as bad person, naw, you let us live out our not so nice, maybe sides. I mean “Enabling Act”, Allen? Really? Oh yeah, I get it. Still I play in hopes of passing it, so what does that say about me? Plus the playing a god offering you have.

Magnus.

Old Guy,

As the U.S. stimulus package looks to clear both the house and the senate for sign off by Obama, do you think the Keynesian economic approach will work? They say that the economy is $1 trillion short, so using the Keynesian approach, if they inject the $786 (I believe that’s the number) then spending will go up and thus the input (stimulus) will, in fact, create more output (spending).

Obviously, the Keynesian approach is being looked at differently than in the 30’s and 40’s. I’m hoping it works and to my limited economics knowledge and what I’ve heard on NPR, it seems like the stimulus package will help keep the U.S. and our trade partners out of a serious depression.

(2 parter…)

How long do you think the judicial process will drag out from here (until he’s convicted/ aquitted)?

Do you really think, as the FBI would have us believe, that they’ve got much more incriminating and/ or damning evidence on the guy than what has so far been released?

OldGuy: Will Blagojevich go away now? Is it wrong for me to wish he’d crawl into a hole and die (and I mean that in the most literal sense you can imagine)?