James Raider
Meanderings through the corporate worlds of high tech and venture capital, have provided fodder for an inquisitive pen and aforaging mind.
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Articles by James Raider
January 22, 2010
Obama is vociferously attacking "risk taking," that very human characteristic at the heart of America´s success. Observing his address, it is evidently something he doesn´t have a good grasp of.
January 07, 2010
How can history be an accurate record when the elusive present is being recorded as wild distortions of reality? The mainstream media´s (MSM) record of the White House, which it reflects onto the American perspective, as well as it´s flaccid ruminations on the Obama Administration, comme...
December 01, 2009
We have entered a new phase of reality distortion as negative events become positive in their reporting. Truth is being transformed. I don´t refer here to politicians lying about the state of affairs to promote a self serving scheme or other, I refer to the mainstream media and its warped rep...
September 15, 2009
The American public is holding fast on its resistance to health care reform. The double talk and confusion from Washington is abundant, however the leadership is unwilling to implement changes that could dramatically reduce health care costs such as those that could easily be acted on pertaining to tort reform.
August 20, 2009
Through a century of market ups and downs, interest rate fluctuations, mergers, acquisitions, political influence, lobbying and positioning insiders to the most powerful government and government related institutions, the Kings of Wall Street have nurtured and advanced their isolated power to a point where they are responsible to no one.
August 05, 2009
To initiate an advance on the lengthy economic turnaround, the joy ride of debt-spending-with-wanton-abandon mindset enjoyed by Bush and continued by Obama must be brought to a close. Deficit growth cannot continue on a path exceeding the rate of economic growth.
July 30, 2009
Government intervention has reduced competition in the banking sector, allowing the favored few bailout-receiver-therefore-government-backed behemoths to attract investor support, and has enabled their acquisitions of not so fortunate competitors.
July 26, 2009
Today we are confronted with a wave of negative wind pushing against the capitalism that has brought America its unprecedented success, as it absorbs the blame for the economic meltdown.
July 21, 2009
With that level of insight you can now go out and make major decisions for your own future, such as, whether or not to buy a house, upgrade your car, perhaps even fly to Europe on the wings of hope. No?
July 13, 2009
Regarding this nastiness of the past week, please do not be too concerned about all this talk surrounding our super high-speed fully automated transaction processors. Also please understand that they are our future. Admittedly, we are enamored with the technological prowess we have acquired. Don´t believe those jealous rumors coming from begrudging low-level corners of the financial community, whining about our "edge."
July 07, 2009
China has created a massive middle class in a single generation, but it has yet to empower it. American consumers are unconsciously pushing back the clock on that empowerment of the Chinese middle class through their dramatic behavior modification of the past year.
July 01, 2009
Attaching the name "Cap and Trade" to this whole business has been a stroke of genius. No one really understands what it all means, and the media believes everything you tell them, so keep plugging it, and keep promoting the "reduction in CO2" stuff.
June 24, 2009
Neda´s graphic entry into martyrdom will have put an end to the placating of ruling Iranian thugs by a European leadership which has enjoyed business as usual for a generation, sanctions or not. Westerners will no longer idly accept the mollifying that has populated the foreign policy agenda of both Europe and North America on Iran.
June 17, 2009
The mullahs may have long feared that change would eventually come in reaction to their abuse of the population. Many have moved the proceeds of their pilfering offshore, "just in case." Some have built themselves Los Angeles and West Vancouver mansions, in anticipation that the gun might eventually not suppress the crowds in Tehran.
The potential for change is directly conditional on the persistence and endurance of the youth filling the streets of Iran.
June 11, 2009
. Not that America wants a king, because it doesn´t, but there is evidently a vast portion of society that yearns for a personality that it believes will transcend it to a place that Camelots are made of. America doesn´t want to literally revisit the anachronism of royalty, yet the British monarchy is as popular in the U.S. as it is in Great Britain. In Obama, America found a willing aspirant on whom it consigned the cloak and stature of monarch, the ultimate iteration of star.
May 30, 2009
Wall Street is quietly cheering and encouraging the moves of a neophyte CEO. You would too, if you controlled the game.
May 27, 2009
When businesses complain of the paperwork mountain required along with endless strings attached, someone should realize that the Obama free money has been rendered too onerous to be accepted.
May 15, 2009
Regardless the weather or technical conditions, ultimate responsibility for who occupies the two seats at the front of the plane rests in the company executives who make the decisions on who fills them.
May 06, 2009
Going all the way back to ´81 when Apple established an alliance of sorts with Logo Computer Systems for the Logo programming language that solidified Apple´s position in the world of education, the hardware manufacturer has a history of establishing effective relationships to solidify its market presence. Spending $700 million on Twitter doesn´t fit that blueprint.
May 01, 2009
As Obama forces his personal views on the automotive landscape, his injection into the Chrysler debacle is evidence of the lengths he appears prepared to reach for morphing the Presidency into a willful bully-pulpit. Even the media is using words like "rogue group," to describe the Chrysler creditor...
April 23, 2009
A world without nuclear weapons is impossible, and a world leader, such as America, not having nuclear weapons is not remotely conceivable.
April 17, 2009
At the time of the Skype acquisition´s announcements, the financial media, while showing surprise, did little to clarify why such a transaction could possibly be considered good business. The answer lies in how the game is played on Wall Street.
April 15, 2009
With six and a half billion people populating this fragile planet, it is idiotic to believe that America can or should stabilize, democratize, infrastructurize, commercialize and adherentize every wayward country on Earth
March 26, 2009
China is calling for a move toward an obscure international currency known as SDRs (Special Drawing Rights) used by the IMF, to replace the U.S. dollar. The proposal on first blush suggests China is concerned with looming inflation in the U.S. and the devaluation of the debt it holds. While a reasonable concern, why would it push for such a dramatic shift?
March 18, 2009
This company´s central role in the financial meltdown that is affecting the whole world deserves more scrutiny than it is getting from either Congress or the White House. America and its taxpayers deserve better.
March 13, 2009
Make a deal Madoff will not refuse. Provide Madoff sight of the end of his tunnel. Take ego and emotions out of the equation, and make light deals with each member of his family. Exchange the leniency for a complete and specific unraveling of the past thirty years Madoff spent in the more dubious financial chambers of Wall Street, Geneva, London, Monaco or Singapore.
March 12, 2009
The accelerating polarization being perpetrated on society by the entertainment and culture industry posing as, "news," must be reversed, before we return to a state similar to pre-revolutionary France where the Three Estates considered were the Aristocracy, the Clergy, and the People, however, the People had no say in the allocation of their tax money once it was collected.
March 05, 2009
Obama will require more than a vague or passing acquaintance with the engines that will enable a return to prosperity, as he leads the charge to inject trillions into bailouts and the so-called stimulus of the economy.
February 27, 2009
This panic driven overreaction will siphon an anticipated $3 trillion or $4 trillion from taxpayers over the coming three or four years. The strategy, being energized by Wall Street and its stockowners, reminds us of placer gold miners using overpowered firehoses that completely destroyed the landscape in the hope that it would render an occasional nugget and some gold dust.
February 13, 2009
As the economy´s meltdown confuses politicians and economists, and stresses businesses and wage earners, the FBI has suddenly discovered a new path to career advancement.
February 02, 2009
American consumers are being accused of closing their wallets, and are being admonished for spreading "weakness."