Yes. we all know Jeeves. Bertie’s venerable Man Friday, yes. But Medical Butlers. What in the heck is that? Well, Medical Butlers are a new category of workers brought about by the disastrous American healthcare system. As we were desultorily contemplating the coming collapse of the U.S. healthcare system, we were drawn to this new category […]
Folks, time to celebrate. Maneesh Dhir, the head of AOL International and the bloke responsible for aggressively pushing AOL’s expansion into India, has quit. We say Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish. God knows, how many jobs Maneesh killed in the U.S. in his missionary zeal to outsource AOL operations to India. A recent memo from AOL […]
Folks, we have now restored the commenting process on the SI blog. We’d disabled it for a few hours last night as we made some changes to the backend of this blog to improve load-time. However, for the next 24-48 hours some users may continue to experience technical issues. Hopefully, things should settle down after […]
We have an important announcement to make. Now don’t get your hopes too high now. We are not shutting down. It’s just that we are making changes to address the speed issues that some of you have mentioned over the last few days. Comments will remain disabled until the changes are completed. Hopefully it won’t […]
Wonderful News. At last an American President who understands the tragedy of unaffordable healthcare Folks, high healthcare costs is resulting in a bankruptcy every 30 seconds in America. A few minutes back in his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama said: [T]he cost of our health care has weighed down […]
We have lived through an era where too often, short-term gains were prized over long-term prosperity; where we failed to look beyond the next payment, the next quarter, or the next election. A surplus became an excuse to transfer wealth to the wealthy instead of an opportunity to invest in our future. Regulations were gutted […]