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Saving the Euro, suggest ministers, will restore economic growth to Britain. It is, they imply, the most important thing we must do to ensure our own recovery. Perhaps if the single currency was such a panacea for growth, we'd have seen a little more of it in stagnant Euroland this past ten years? Maintaining the Euro at any price won't... [read more]
I’ve been thinking a lot about these two types of graphs at the moment. This first is a single chart that shows income growth for various segments of the US population broken down by wealth. This second is a group of graphs that talk about pageviews and visits to various websites on the internet. What is fascinating about the... [read more]
Louisiana has lost an $80 million rural broadband grant for failing to keep their broadband expansion project on track. The Commerce Department rescinded the grant stating that the project administrators were repeatedly unresponsive to requests for information and updates on where the project stood. Senator Mary Landrieu has said that... [read more]
This fact sheet from UNISON is superb. We need to demolish the lies put out by the Daily Hates and the Tax Evaders Alliance about pensions."MYTH - People are living longer which means they're claiming their pensions for longer - this needs to be addressed. The schemes were revised to take account of this three years ago -... [read more]
When the credit crunch first hit in 2007, the Western elite told us it was caused by insufficient regulation, market failure and reckless capitalism. It was not. The credit crunch came about when markets called time on a massive credit bubble. The credit bubble was itself caused by Big Government deliberately trying... [read more]
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The Euro is at a fork in the road; either the Eurozone must become a full fiscal union, or it will have to break up. I believe George Osborne is wrong to suggest that full fiscal union in Euroland is preferable. It is in neither Europe’s interest nor our own. Faced with a choice between a) full fiscal union or... [read more]
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) at the Commerce Department recently held a workshop to discuss how protection of personal information can be made a key implementation element in the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The meeting discussed steps that Government and industry can... [read more]
“European localism” is what we need to reform the EU and make it more to our liking, says a new report out tomorrow. Except the idea of European localism is an oxymoron. A contradiction in terms. The European project has only ever been about transferring power upward. Every successive treaty reform... [read more]
Photograph by Pete Souza. This Feature Friday article is written by Jessica Wagner. It sounds staggering but President Barack Obama will likely break $1 billion in political fundraising for his 2012 re-election campaign. While this number is mind boggling and sure to incite its share of political debate, that kind of dough... [read more]
Delaware has launched a new website to make it easier for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and other employers to do business with the State of Delaware. The new website will serve as a resource for companies interested in bidding for State contracts. The Governor hopes that the site will make the bidding process easier and more... [read more]
In this edition of CivSource’s The Gallery, Christina Morrison, HP Public Sector Marketing Manager, discusses the benefits of teleworking in state and local government agencies, from cost savings to environmental benefits. The recent recession took a significant toll on the finances of state and local governments, and... [read more]
Art. 5 ECHR. What not to do. Image via Wikipedia This is a post about procurement, so let’s start by talking about human rights. There are many bits of idiocy in British political debate at the moment, but perhaps none so blankly stupid as the idea that human rights laws are bad because they allow judges to overrule the decisions of the... [read more]
Living inside the Beltway, I’m acutely aware of how much time, money, energy and creative thinking are poured into struggles over how the federal government should regulate business. The winners in this game are the powerful: Republicans, Democrats, corporate America, government employees and the industry associations, law firms... [read more]
I just did an interview on the Daily Politics about public spending cuts - and why the government was actually finding it rather more difficult to curb spending than the rhetoric suggests. It is a mathematical fact that total public spending is actually set to rise from £669 Billion in the... [read more]
In his latest Gallery column, Deloitte’s Robert Campbell says that political and policy leadership is needed at all levels of government as mounting debt looms large for not only the federal Treasury, but for state and local budgets as well. “The next several weeks are likely to be instructive concerning our financial future,” Mr.... [read more]
Dean Halstead is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
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Steve Radick is a Lead Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton and serves on the Advisory Board for the SmartBrief on Social Media. More »
Maybe they'll get it right this year, they can't afford to fail again, the competition is too tight on the electric car market. Sure there's still room for breakthroughs, I read some interesting articles about it on www.partsgeek.com, we should expect some interesting electric car technologies in ...
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