The thoughts and findings of the Student Nerds!
Share According to CNN, Obama is not willing to give up his blackberry. The fact that there may be a possibility of people trying to hack into it and use the GPS to track Obama. I think the issue is more that they don’t understand it. I think its great that he is fighting for [...]
ShareI’ve written before about how much I enjoy/learn from Robert Reich’s posts. And he has another good one out, expressing concern that the benefits of the proposed stimulus might falls disproportionately to current highly-paid and desired professionals and to the vastly white and male construction industry. In his words: “But if there aren’t enough skilled [...]
ShareThis post will have a little different flavor, but it is something important I think, and I really hope to get our readers perspective on this. Now that the democratic vote on bailing out the Big 3 automakers has failed, and we have successfully set aside the democratic process to enact the bailout anyway, the [...]
Share I was reading this post from Roger Ehrenberg. Normally I agree with pretty much agree, or at least am educated with everything Roger says, but in this instance I think that he misses the point. Rogers complains that “bankrupt companies are spending millions on influencing key policy-makers while their destiny hangs in the balance, [...]
Share Robert Reich is a very smart man. I have enjoyed and learned a lot from reading his blog. While this post is packed with insightful and interesting analysis, I think that his focus on the infrastructure aspect of Obama’s “Economic Recovery Plan” is especially pertinent. The American Society of Civil Engineers believes that $1.6 [...]
Share I have a lot of feelings towards this election, but I’ll let you read what Mark Cuban wrote. I feel exactly the same way.