Politics
iPhones & the US China Trade Deficit
Thursday, December 16th, 2010This article is cross-posted in the Baselodge blog: http://baselodge.com/blog/2010/12/iphones-the-us-china-trade-deficit/ Apple’s wildly successful iPhone line is a bright shining testimony to American design and engineering. Can it really be that such a great American product is actually adding to the United States’ trade deficit with China? Given the current way trade deficits and surpluses are calculated, [...]
Keeping Up on the Financial Crisis
Monday, October 13th, 2008The past few months have been demanding on those of us who try to stay informed about the financial world in which we live and work. The fact that you are reading a sourcing blog confirms that you work in the real world of product design, development, and/or manufacturing. All of these functions occur in [...]
Fred Burton – The Ghost
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Fred Burton is a counterterrorism expert at www.stratfor.com. A link to one of his articles has already appeared on Artful Sourcing. He has a terrific new book hitting the bookstores entitled Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterroism Agent. The first two chapters of the book have been published on the Stratfor website, and they are a [...]