LOOK OUT! TVs will be dropping like a rock...their prices anyway! WHY?!?

OK folks, supply and demand time.  Why is there such a drop in HDTV prices this week?

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Hard Drives...GETTIN' PRICIER! Why?!?

Once again, the prices of those ever-so-desireable hard drives (in the 2TB range) refuse to not go up...why?  International-trade-and-you is why.  The floods in Bangkok, Thailand...

Anyone else feeling the crimp?  Anyone else bumping up to max on storage, and wants MORE?

And then, there's NVIDIA and AMD who are ever so much more smacked by this flooding.  How would they feel the crunch?  Read the article!


http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9223696/Impact_of_Thailand_floods_continues_to_bite_tech_industry?taxonomyName=Hardware&taxonomyId=12

Can you say, "Price or availability of complementary goods"?

NY Times story reported, "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work"

So...WHY are jobs 'leaving' the U.S.?  Answer?  We force them to.  Our society/gov't/culture has set up such an arcane rigmarole to go through to make things that people want, that businesses cannot compete with the additional costs and delays.

Steve Jobs himself provides a great example of this, APPLE itself, that liberal bastion of campaign $ donations, that his company could not make the iPhone in the U.S.  (Some would now point out the amazing hypocrisy on the part of Steve Jobs, and by logical extension, the other billionaire libs...like Oprah, Zuckerberg, etc.)

From the article, "Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.

Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.

Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest.

The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products."

Or, "Another critical advantage for Apple was that China provided engineers at a scale the United States could not match. Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufacturing iPhones. The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States.

In China, it took 15 days."

Obviously that demonstrates a surplus of skilled, educated labor that the U.S. does not have.  WHY?  Some blame this or that, like the public school system...but it more likely is due to the choices students coming through our fine institutions are making for themselves.  "Why take math when I can take a goofy movie class?"  

Check it out.  Gorilla glass and YOU (or Steve Job's car keys scratching the plastic iPhone's surface...) and CHINA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Single parent of three, or family making $60,000 a year...which has more money to spend?

Wrong.  According to Tyler Durden, those making $15,000 with three kids, has MORE disposable income than a family making $60,000.  

WOW!

In Entitlement America, The Head Of A Household Of Four Making Minimum Wage Has More Disposable Income Than A Family Making $60,000 A Year

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2010 00:18 -0400

Tonight's stunning financial piece de resistance comes from Wyatt Emerich of The Cleveland Current. In what is sure to inspire some serious ire among all those who once believed Ronald Reagan that it was the USSR that was the "Evil Empire", Emmerich analyzes disposable income and economic benefits among several key income classes and comes to the stunning (and verifiable) conclusion that "a one-parent family of three making $14,500 a year (minimum wage) has more disposable income than a family making $60,000 a year." And that excludes benefits from Supplemental Security Income disability checks. America is now a country which punishes those middle-class people who not only try to work hard, but avoid scamming the system. Not surprisingly, it is not only the richest and most audacious thieves that prosper - it is also the penny scammers at the very bottom of the economic ladder that rip off the middle class each and every day, courtesy of the world's most generous entitlement system. Perhaps if Reagan were alive today, he would wish to modify the object of his once legendary remark.