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What’s this? Manufacturing plants being built in the US? http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/16/us-apple-samsung-idUSTRE7BF0D420111216 The US a net exporter of energy in Q4? http://online.wsj.com/article/APf917509ee61344a38638e2c08bc47090.html Once again the conventional wisdom of the US being dead is, well, dying. As I always say about conventional wisdom: always bet the other way.

I’m disgusted. I’m disgusted with our government being more concerned about protecting its big donors than making this a country we can all be proud of. We have had this fight over PIPA and SOPA (a great video here that explains it all), two privacy bills that would let the government shut down YouTube, Facebook and [...]

I was going to write about something else this week but this interview of Carlota Perez by Fred Wilson was way too interesting not to share. If you care about what is happening to our economy and the transition we are undergoing and dying for a positive outlook, take a half hour to review: If [...]

Support makes a huge difference in whom I choose to buy products from. A few examples: From the time I bought my first Macbook in 2008, the first unibody version, I was having troubles. It didn’t seem to sit flat on the desk and the CD had a hard time going in. It was just [...]

While there are lots of new and interesting things going on in mobile, an article from a college student this morning bemoaning what Congress and the President are doing to help their job prospects caught my eye. Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana apparently spoke at Georgetown University, saying that 14 million unemployed is the “red [...]