James K. Glassman: August 2001 Archives
The Skeptical Environmentalist Finds Hope for the Human Condition
Bjorn Lomborg isn`t one to abandon his politics just because he strays from the established line on the environment. The Danish statistics professor would rather solve the pressing problems of the world effectively. Tech Central Station Host James K. Glassman...
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Tech Firms Built to Last Through Tough Times
Stock prices are about the future. More specifically, the price of a share of stock reflects investor belief in the future earnings of the company. Depending on how much the firm's earnings, or profits, are expected to increase over time,...
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Welfare-State Enthusiasts Desperately Fight Social Security Reform
President Bush is convinced that Social Security reform is an idea whose time has come. And he's right. Soon now, he will propose that Americans be allowed to take some of the money that now goes to payroll taxes and...
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Stocks on the A-List
Each year, the personal finance magazine Worth polls its readers on the products they use and enjoy. A lot of magazines conduct reader surveys, of course, but there are a few reasons why this one may be of particular...
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Online Learning Clicks Workers Through To The New Economy, Union Leader Bahr Tells TCS
Lifetime jobs are a thing of the past, Communications Workers of America President Morton Bahr says. Instead, lifelong learning is the key to "employment security," he tells Tech Central Station Host James K. Glassman. Bahr points to his union`s...
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Labor and Management Finding Online Learning to Their Liking
President George W. Bush and AFL-CIO President John Sweeney disagree on many things. But in late June they found some common ground at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C. At the Summit on the 21st Century Workforce hosted by...
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Rep. Knollenberg Declines A Larger Cup of CAFE
Advancing conservation was one goal contained in the comprehensive energy legislation the House passed just before going on its annual August recess. Amid the bill`s bevy of energy-saving provisions lies a re-opening of higher Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ)
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Game Makers Poised to Profit
The economic landscape may look pretty dreary with GDP growth churning below 1 percent. And in technology markets, it's hard to see the silver lining amid all the clouds, or as they call them in the securities business, "lack of...
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