techcrunch.com - 10/26/2009
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Editor’s note : This is a guest post by Vivek Wadhwa , an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Executive in Residence at Duke University. Follow him on Twitter at @ vwadhwa . I spent Columbus Day in ...
themoderatevoice.com - 10/23/2009
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themoderatevoice.com —
The newest critique against the Federal Government limiting
executive salaries in companies that it has essentially saved...
from liquidation or in which it holds a major ownership interest, is that it will cause a brain drain of the best people to other companies. I have one response to such a ...
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Brain Drain? You’ve got to be kidding.
themoderatevoice.com - 10/22/2009
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themoderatevoice.com —
The production of a Hollywood film on the
romance between Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and...
Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the last British viceroy of India, has been temporarily halted. The Indian government wants an assurance that the movie, Indian Summer , ...
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Hollywood Movie Interrupted: Nehru-Edwina Romance
newsweek.com - 10/19/2009
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newsweek.com —
On June 21, two Chinese military helicopters swooped
low over Demchok, a tiny Indian hamlet high in...
the Hima-layas along the northwestern border with China. The helicopters dropped canned food over a barren expanse and then returned to bases in China. ...
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India's China Obsession | Newsweek International
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TALENT GOES WHERE IT’S REWARDED: Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China. “We surveyed 1…
Instapundit —
... TALENT GOES WHERE IT’S REWARDED: Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China. “We surveyed 1,224 foreign students from dozens of nations who are currently studying at U.S. universities or who graduated in 2008. The majority told us that they didn’t think that the U.S. was the best place for their professional careers and they planned to return home. Only 6 percent of Indian, 10 percent of Chinese, and 15 percent of European students planned to settle in the U.S.” ...
Voting With Their Feet - And the Jobs and Wealth They Might Create
Daily Pundit —
Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China
Foreign-born workers comprise almost a quarter of all the U.S. science and engineering workforce and 47% of science and engineering workers who have PhDs. It is very possible that some of the smart Indians who sat in the room with me holding their hand up on Columbus Day will start the next Google or Apple. Many of them will build companies which employ thousands. But the jobs will be in Hyderbad or Pune, not Silicon Valley.
I have long said that the “job of America” is not ...
Poll: Majority Of Foreign Students Planning On Taking Their American Education Back Home
Say Anything —
... It used to be that America was the destination for those seeking work, education and prosperity. People are certainly still coming here for education, but more and more those people are leaving again because they’re getting a better deal somewhere else. ...
Morning Briefs: Stuff You've Probably Already Read Somewhere Else
Moonbattery —
... Item Number Three: It used to be the the best minds came to the USA for opportunity, and capital followed them. But as the USA becomes increasingly over-regulated and over-taxed, the appeal of doing business here diminishes. It's getting so bad under the Obamunists that entrepreneurs and venture capitalists would rather seek their fortunes in China and India than here. That's just plain sad. ...
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harrisonprice.com 22 days ago — With U.S. debt at an all time high and numerous Democratic proposals on the table to raise it further, is it any wonder that countries are getting rid of their dollar stockpiles for something that won’t keep dropping in value?
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The End of Unipolarity
voices.washingtonpost.com 10/14/2009 —
Some excellent thoughts on the structural forces behind the end of American unipolarity from Matt Yglesias:
Nobody has proposed a halfway plausible mechanism by which the United States can alter the fact that India and China have a larger ...
A Brief History of Zero and Indian Numerals
brusselsjournal.com 9/29/2009 —
I heard the claim from one European reader that “The Arab
world invented the zero, and it’s been downhill ever since.” This is false, but
unfortunately not an uncommon mistake. Our numeral system dates back to India
during the post-Roman ...
India: We’re Not Hurting Our Economy For “Climate Change”
qando.net 10/23/2009 — T he Copenhagen summit is in December and yesterday UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said he didn’t expect an agreement to come out of the meeting, dashing the hopes of environmental extremists that the nations would agree to binding reductions of ...
So can anyone actually do anything about global warming?
themoderatevoice.com 8/25/2009 — The new issue of Foreign Affairs is hot off the presses. Its cover package includes three articles about global warming that are well worth reading. The focus here is entirely on how to solve the problem. This is a discussion of the politics, not the scientific debate behind it.
First up is ...
America's First Brain Drain
pheedcontent.com 9/23/2009 — The legal immigration system - the same one that has kept me in limbo for a quarter of a century - is reaching a breaking point . Skilled immigrants are returning home to the more fertile opportunities in China and India because America makes it ...
Chinese military backs closer U.S. ties —
Reuters: Politics 10/26/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China's military sought to assure the United States on Monday that its arms buildup was not a threat and said Beijing wanted to expand cooperation with the Pentagon to reduce the risk of future conflicts.
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